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 The AIDAnova, carrying 2,844 passengers and 1,353 crew, had docked
in Portugal's capital on Wednesday.
The ship was en route to the island of Madeira for New Year's Eve
celebrations, but its German operator decided to cut the cruise
short after COVID-19 was detected among what it said was a fully
vaccinated crew, 52 of whom tested positive between Wednesday and
Friday.
By Monday 68 positive cases, including a handful among the
passengers, had been detected, port captain Diogo Vieira Branco told
the Lusa news agency.
Passengers who had tested negative in the past 48 hours started to
disembark before dawn and were being transported by bus to the
city's airport in an operation expected to last most of the day.
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 "We're living in this situation
and it can always happen. Of course it's not
nice, we imagined something else," one calm but
disappointed passenger said as he disembarked.
"We all want this to end. We're going home,"
added another.
The company, AIDA Cruises, a subsidiary of
Carnival Corp, did not immediately reply to a
Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Miguel Pereira, Pedro Nunes and
Catarina Demony; Additional reporting by
Victoria Waldersee; Editing by Aislinn Laing and
John Stonestreet)
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