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The cruise ship AIDAaura resumes sailing after it was denied the presence on board of coronavirus cases
The results of the analysis carried out on two German passengers failed
March 3, 2020
The cruise line, which through Costa Cruises makes Carnival Corporation group, has announced that one of the 1,200 passengers on board the ship were informed by the German authorities who in his work environment have been cases of people infected. Therefore, AIDA Cruises, as precautionary measure, decided together with the passenger and his companion, for safety reasons, to subject both to medical checks at Norwegian local authorities even though neither showed any symptoms of malaise.
The company explained that today at 3 p.m. local time, health authorities have reported the results of the tests carried out on the two passengers, with samples that were sent tonight at Haukeland Hospital where the analysis that confirmed that neither was found to be positive to coronavirus. AIDA Cruises then announced that ship will resume the journey.
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