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This is apparently more bad news for the cruise industry with this newest recommendation from top U.S. health authorities. Still, cruisers gon na cruise, so this might have little impact on future bookings.
Tom Lowry
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Avoidance (CDC) said on Friday individuals at an increased risk for severe disease from COVID-19 should prevent travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, regardless of their vaccination status.
Older grownups and people with medical conditions are most likely to get seriously ill from the disease and needs to take expert recommend prior to cruise liner travel, the company said.
For more on cruises throughout the pandemic, read Skift at “The Lasting Effect of a Year Without Any Cruises”
Cruise operators have actually been sailing from U.S. ports once again in current weeks with primarily immunized guests and crew after lengthy talks with the CDC.
But a few on-board coronavirus cases and a Delta variant-driven increase in U.S. infections have raised fret about the cruise market’s recovery from the lows seen in 2015.
The health agency in May started approving some cruise operations and in June eased its warnings and suggested just totally vaccinated people take journeys.
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla and Mehr Bedi in Bengaluru; Modifying by Aditya Soni)
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