Dozens of passengers and crew members aboard the 'Arcadia' came down sick with a gastrointestinal illness. They reported symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t yet confirmed it to be norovirus. The ship ship is on a transatlantic round-trip cruise from Southampton, UK, on Sep 3, 2024, to the US. and Canada. The CDC came aboard the ship when in docked in New York on Sep 18 to assess the situation. Upon embarkation all guests were provided with an advisory notice with precautionary health measures for onboard and onshore by P&O Cruises. The cruise line also made announcements to notify passengers and crew of the outbreak.
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TALOS
On the evening of Sep 21, 2024, the Port Authority of Naxos was informed by the Master of the ‘Talos’ that it is deemed unsafe to approach the port due to adverse weather conditions that prevailed in the area and continued its route to the port of Paros. On the ship, 16 people were waiting to disembark, who were disembarked at the port of Naxos when the ship returned from the port of Paros, while 17 people boarded.
ESPERANZA DEL MAR
The mayer of Arrecife has asked to move the ''Esperanza del Mar' to the Canary Islands and transfer the migrants to Barcelona The island has received almost 600 Maghrebi migrants in 24 hours. The mayor Yonathan de León, has asked the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that the hospital ship transfers the hundreds of irregular migrants who have arrivedon the island to be disembarked in the port of Barcelona. The mayor has stressed that, in just 24 hours, almost 600 Maghrebi migrants have arrived in Lanzarote on board of 11 boats, many of them minors or pregnant women. Lanzarote declared a Social Emergency last August in response to the large number of migrants from North Africa who were heading towards the Canary Islands.
CHAMPION JET 3
On the afternoon of Sep 20, the Port Authority of Lavrio was informed about the emergency approach to the port of the 'Champion Jet 3' n order to disembark a 45-year-old passenger, who needed immediate hospital care, in deviation from the scheduled itinerary. The patient was dropped off and transported by an ambulance to the General Hospital of Attica, while the ship continued its route to the port of Piraeus.
SPEEDRUNNER JET 2
On the morning of Sep 21, the Port Authority of Syros was informed by the Master of ‘Speedrunner Jet 2’, which was performing a scheduled route from the port of Thira to the ports of Paros-Mykonos-Syros-Piraeus, that its approach to the port of Syros was considered unsafe due to the adverse weather conditions and that the ship would continue its voyage to port of Piraeus. The passengers and vehicles that were to disembark at the port of Syros wee forwarded to their destination by another ship, while similarly, 220 passengers who were waiting for boarding, wee forwarded to their destination by the company.