They came to Sydney for the trip of a lifetime but went home with a deadly souvenir — but little is known about the international passengers on the Ruby Princess, whose coronavirus infections are not counted in official statistics.
And, while much has been written about the swathe of coronavirus infections about the Rugby Princess, about 900 passengers dropped off the radar.They said the company"could not have done more to put our health at risk"Some 2,647 passengers were travelling on the 13-day return trip from Sydney to New Zealand before it docked two days earlier than planned on March 19, as Australia began to clamp down on cruising in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19.
About two thirds of the passengers were Australian and among them, 16 have died from the virus and hundreds more have been infected. But much less is known about the 900 overseas guests — many of whom left the ship and the country without knowing they had been exposed to the bug.
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