South Africa is holding more than 1,700 people on a cruise liner and a cargo vessel off the coast of Cape Town because of coronavirus. A crew member of cargo ship MV Corona is suspected to have the virus. He had been on a flight with six other people, who then boarded Italian-flagged cruise liner MV Aidamira. The MV Aidamira, with 1,240 passengers and 486 crew on board, had returned to Cape Town from Namibia’s Walvis Bay. The crew member has since been placed in isolation on-board the MV Corona, along with another crew member who was on the same flight from Turkey. Authorities are working on tracing all the people the suspected cases came into contact withThe ship is mainly carrying German and Austrian nationals, though other nationalities are also thought to be on board.
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES