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SINGAPORE – All passengers were cleared to disembark from a cruise ship that docked at Singapore on Tuesday (Mar 10) morning after being rejected at several ports over fears about the coronavirus.
It took about 14 hours – from 8.40am to around 11pm – for all 1,631 passengers to leave the Costa Fortuna.
All foreign passengers were sent directly to their airport or their hotels by midnight, said the Health Ministry (MOH), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Singapore Tourism Board in a joint statement on Tuesday night.
They added that all foreign passengers will depart from Singapore within the next two days.
The joint statement did not specify if any measures will be in place to monitor those that have returned to their hotels.
Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong, who co-chairs the multi-ministry task force combating the spread of the coronavirus, said in a Facebook post on Tuesday night that he understood why some have raised concerns about allowing the ship to dock in Singapore.
“Many still remember what happened in other cruise ships where there had been virus outbreaks,” he said.
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