“I do think they should have told us something,” he said.
When he asked the ship’s medical team about the cases, he was told he would have been notified and isolated if he had tested positive. “The show went on and the bars were open. Saturday night, “Everything was business as normal,” he said. It was very shocking and completely out of the blue.” Berry said he thought it was due to new government rules requiring testing. “We have been on two cruises prior to this one and we didn’t have to do one.
Wade Berry said he was on the ship with three friends, celebrating his recovery from cancer, but he didn’t hear about the positive cases until he read the statement by the New Orleans mayor’s office that his sister sent him.Įveryone on board was tested Saturday, while the ship was still at sea, Berry told CNN as he traveled from New Orleans to his home in Dallas on Sunday. “Governor John Bel Edwards, the Louisiana Department of Health, the City of New Orleans and the Port of New Orleans are aware and working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to initiate existing COVID-19 agreements and protocols with the cruise line,” the city said in a news release Saturday. The ship disembarked in New Orleans on Sunday and previously had detected 10 cases of Covid-19.Īll crew members and passengers are fully vaccinated and all of the 10 cases first reported were asymptomatic, the cruise line said in a statement Sunday.ĬNN has reached out to the cruise line for comment on the latest developments. The Covid-19 positive case count among crew and passengers aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line ship Breakaway has risen to 17, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
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