Numerous information retailers in Australia are reporting that the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak. The nation of Bali took the extraordinary step of blocking the Cunard ship from calling at port.
Neither the cruise operator (Cunard) nor ship proprietor (Carnival Corporation) would disclose the variety of 
contaminated passengers or crew members. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Cunard admitted “there was an ‘elevated level of transmission’ on board, but declined to provide case numbers.”
The Sydney Morning Herald states that authorities in Indonesian requested the Queen Elizabeth to desert the Balinese leg of its 17-day tour, following a COVID-19 outbreak on board.
“The Queen Elizabeth left Sydney on November 15, stopping at Airlie Beach, Cairns, Port Douglas and Darwin, but will cut short the final week of its tour and head straight to Fremantle.”
ABC News in Australia studies that the “WA (West Australia) government said it had received information that 10 to 15 percent of the people on board are COVID-positive.”
With almost 2,100 passengers and a crew of round 1,000, that signifies that between 310 and 465 folks on the Cunard ship had been optimistic for COVID-19.
Spokeswoman for Cunard, operator of #cruise ship, exhibiting typical lack of transparency, declined to supply variety of folks contaminated with #COVID19 ???? Forced abandonment of #cruise ship’s Bali port name follows Majestic Princess with 800 #COVID19 ++optimistic pax & crew in Sydney.
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) November 26, 2022
The Australian newspaper added that the “abandonment of the ship’s Bali tour follows the berthing of the Majestic Princess in Sydney earlier this month, carrying 800 COVID-positive passengers and crew.”
There has been a pattern of cruise ships calling on Australian ports within the final month with a major variety of passengers and crew members optimistic for COVID-19:
Majestic Princess – 800 contaminated company (Sydney);
Quantum of the Seas – 400 contaminated company (heading towards Queensland)
Coral Princess – 290 contaminated company and crew (Fremantle);
Grand Princess – 200 contaminated company (Melbourne);
Ovation of the Seas – 129 contaminated company and a pair of crew member (New Zealand)
Majestic Princess – 116 contaminated company (Tahiti).
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