A flight carrying 112 Australian and New Zealand cruise ship passengers has landed in Melbourne, with dozens believed to have COVID-19. 9News Read more:
The travellers had been stranded on the luxury Antarctic cruise ship, the Greg Mortimer, for two weeks.
The flight took off from Montevideo yesterday, with baggage handlers clad in protective gear loading suitcases.It's thought around half of all passengers and crew on the ship have been infected.Passengers had been stranded for weeks before being allowed to dock. The Greg Mortimer cruise ship, carrying some passengers infected with the new coronavirus, arrives to the port in Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday.
Workers load the luggage on the plane that will transport the passengers from the Australian cruise ship Greg Mortimer, the cruise ship that has been anchored off the South American country coast since March 27 with more than half its passengers and crew infected
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