More than 150 passengers tested positive for Covid-19 on Italian cruise ship that arrived in Genao from the French port of Marseille on Monday morning according to RaiNews24.
“As per protocol, the COVID-positive passengers and their relatives were immediately isolated in balcony cabins and received medical attention, 45 of them were taken off the ship in Genoa “to be taken home safely” at the company’s expense” MSC’s communications department said.
The Genoa port authorities confirmed to AFP that the Italian positive cases were taken home by the civil protection services, while foreign passengers who tested positive were transferred to medical facilities.
Other positive passengers will be disembarked in Civitavecchia, a port that serves Rome, or in Palermo, Sicily, it added.
According to the Genoa daily newspaper Il Secolo XIX there were some 4,000 passengers in all aboard the ship, which arrived in Genoa from Marseille.
