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277 Passengers Sickened by Norovirus Outbreak on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship

2019-01-11

[KTLA-5] Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is returning to a Florida port a day early and giving passengers full refunds of their fare after 277 guests and crew members were hit with an outbreak of Norovirus as it sailed to Jamaica.

Cruise line spokesman Owen Torres told The Associated Press "we think the right thing to do is get everyone home early rather than have guests worry about their health."

He says the ship will return to Port Canaveral on Saturday. It sailed from there Sunday on a seven-day Caribbean cruise.

Passengers took to social media on Wednesday, tweeting they were forced to stay onboard after docking in Falmouth, Jamaica, for what was supposed to be a day of excursions.

Torres says returning a day early gives the cruise line "more time to completely clean and sanitize the ship" before it sails again.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 They have hand sanitizer stations all over the place and a crewmember doing a little humorous song-and-dance reminder as you go into the dining room.

Posted by: Glenmore 2019-01-11 14:23

#3 It's wild how fast we saw that spread on a Princess line ship.

Washing hands and God help you, don't touch your face Glenmore.

Posted by: Woodrow 2019-01-11 13:46

#2 Somebody may have come on-board that was already infected, Glenmore. Usually takes a couple days for the symptoms to manifest.

Wash your hands and happy cruising!

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-01-11 08:39

#1 We sail on a different RC ship on Saturday. Our past experience is that they are really serious about preventing such outbreaks - not sure what failed.

Posted by: Glenmore 2019-01-11 02:45

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