66 people aboard Cordelia Cruise Ship docked in Goa test Covid positive

Panaji: As many as 66 people of the over 2,000 people aboard the Cordelia Cruise ship, tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. As the testing continued, the ship has been docked in Goa after departure from Mumbai. The ship is docked near the Mormugao Port cruise terminal.
Sixty-six passengers in a cruise ship that sailed from Mumbai to Goa have tested positive for COVID-19. In a tweet, Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said some 2,000 samples were tested on board the cruise ship, Cordelia. "Out of 2,000 samples tested from the Cordelia cruise ship, 66 passengers tested positive for COVID-19... The authorities will decide whether to allow disembarking of passengers from the ship," Rane tweeted. The cruise ship was carrying a large crowd of passengers who came to celebrate the New Year amid the Omicron threat. A medical team in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) boarded the ship to conduct RT-PCR tests on passengers and crew members. According to officials, passengers were directed not to disembark from the ship until the results of the RT-PCR tests were announced. The passengers were tested after one of the crew members was found infected with the COVID-19 on January 2.
The Cordelia cruise ship had made headlines in the month of October over a drug raid case involving Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, and several others.
According to official data, Goa recorded 388 new COVID-19 cases as of January 2, taking the total number of infections in the state to 1,81,570. Meanwhile, with one more death, the fatalities reached 3,523 in the state. Beaches in the coastal state popular with tourists teemed with a sea of people during the New Year, leading to concerns that it would lead to a massive spike in COVID-19 cases. Already, COVID-19 cases have been rising in neighbouring Maharashtra and other states like Delhi.