Exclusive: Infected Ruby Princess passengers transmit virus to 19 people ashore
At least nineteen people across Australia have been infected with COVID-19 after coming into contact with passengers allowed to disembark from the Ruby Princess cruise ship in Sydney.
The ramifications of the decision to let 2700 people off the Ruby Princess to board planes, buses and taxis to return home can now be quantified for the first time by the growing number of patients infected by the ship's passengers.Victoria has reported five COVID-19 patients who are believed to have been infected by passengers on the Ruby Princess, the ACT had two cases and NSW has 12 such patients,who drove one of the ship's passengers home to Campbelltown.
James Wood, an applied mathematician from UNSW's School of Public Health and Community Medicine, said the number of human to human transmissions after the passengers disembarked indicated that the community had escaped relatively lightly, assuming all the secondary cases had been picked up.
"There's a high degree of trust that a ship will disclose any issues, particularly biological issues, that they have on the ship," Mr Fuller told Radio National on Tuesday morning."It's just a question of what is the communication between Ruby Princess, [owner] Carnival, and the NSW government and the federal government and the all important Port Authority.
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