'Nobody expected we were going to keep COVID off ships.' 9News
The Coral Princess docks at Circular Quay.
Fitzgerald defended the COVID-19 protocols, which she said were agreed to with NSW Health and Queensland Health to get cruises restarted in May. She added that some of the passengers likely brought COVID-19 onto the ship when it left from Brisbane, despite having to declare they'd tested negative on a RAT."It shows we are very successfully able to operate a cruise in a COVID environment."It was just about managing it."She said cruising is the only industry subject to the higher protocols and Fitzgerald said operators had to declare cases to authorities.Passengers getting off this morning confirmed this was the case.
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