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'Shocking': Canadian on cruise ship fatalities
Canadian Anne Arthur who is on board the Zaandam cruise ship with her husband talks about their current situation.
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Four dead on cruise ship with Canadians on board
Four people have died on a Holland America Line cruise ship with several Canadians on board, the company confirmed Friday.
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Toronto woman, husband stuck on cruise ship
A Toronto woman and her husband are stuck in their rooms on board a cruise ship after passengers and crew became ill.
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Codi Wilson, Web Content Writer, CP24 6park.com
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Published Friday, March 27, 2020 2:32PM EDT
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Last Updated Friday, March 27, 2020 8:00PM EDT
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Four fatalities have been reported on a Holland America Line cruise
ship with several Canadians on board, the company confirmed Friday. 6park.com
In a written statement, the company said that 53 guests and 85 crew
members on Holland America’s Zaandam have reported to the ship’s medical
centre with influenza-like illness symptoms and two individuals have
tested positive for COVID-19. 6park.com
“Four older guests have passed away on Zaandam. Our thoughts and
prayers are with their families and we are doing everything we can to
support them during this difficult time,” the company said. 6park.com
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6park.com 6park.com Holland America Line's ship, The Zaandam, is pictured above. (Photo: www.hollandamerica.com) 6park.com
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The nationality of the deceased guests has not been confirmed. 6park.com
The Zaandam, which is housing 1,243 guests and 586 crew members,
departed from Argentina on March 7 and the cruise was initially supposed
to end in Chile on March 21. 6park.com
That all changed when the cruise line decided to suspend global cruise
operations for one month and end all cruises in progress as “quickly as
possible.” 6park.com
The ship is currently off the coast of Panama and the crew now plans to
transfer healthy patients to a sister ship, the Rotterdam. 6park.com
“Only those who have not been ill will be moved, and health screenings
will be conducted before transferring. Priority for the first guests to
transfer will be given to those on Zaandam with inside staterooms and
who are over 70,” Holland America said. 6park.com
“Once aboard Rotterdam, all guests will continue to remain in their
staterooms until disembarkation. Any guests who are currently ill, or in
isolation as a close contact, and all crew will remain on Zaandam.” 6park.com
Holland America says all guests and crew received face masks on Thursday and were provided with instructions on wearing them. 6park.com
Earlier this week, CP24 spoke to Toronto resident Anne Arthur, a
passenger on the ship, who said she and her husband were ordered to
stay in their rooms on Sunday after learning that passengers and crew
members had become ill. 6park.com
“Even though we weren’t allowed to dock and get off the boat the last
couple of stops, people were generally feeling that it was fine. We did
not expect someone was going to get sick because we had already been on
the boat since March 7,” Arthur told CP24 on Tuesday. 6park.com
Arthur said when she and her husband decided to go forward with the
cruise, COVID-19 didn’t feel like a major situation in North America. 6park.com
“It had broken out in Italy…We just did not see it progressing so
quickly the way it did,” she said. “Things changed so rapidly after we
left Toronto.” 6park.com
The company said it is working to get the two ships to Fort Lauderdale,
Florida. No one has been off the Zaandam since March 14. 6park.com
"It was pretty shocking," Arthur told CP24 on Friday. "We knew people were ill, but we had no idea they were that ill." 6park.com
Arthur said they had not been told much information about the four
deaths. She said they and other healthy passengers are now waiting to be
moved to the Rotterdam. 6park.com
"We are sitting here right now with our bags packed. We're trying to
stay positive. We had our temperature taken. We've had a health doctor
in here come and chat with us. 6park.com
"We have been deemed healthy," Arthur said. 6park.com
She said passengers and crew who are considered unhealthy would stay in the Zaandam. 6park.com
Arthur said both cruise ships are still waiting for the government of
Panama to permit them to go through the Panama Canal en route to
Florida.