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Pacific Explorer gets ‘amber’ rating on arrival in Sydney

After becoming the first foreign-flagged cruise ship to enter Australian waters after more than two years on April 18, P&O Cruises Australia’s Pacific Explorer docked in Sydney Monday morning with a reported 100 cases of COVID-19.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

July 18, 2022

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The ship, which was returning from a nine-night round cruise to Queensland with 2,800 passengers, was given an ‘amber’ moderate impact rating.

This covers 30 to 99 cases out of 1,000 passengers.

Coral Princess

Amber is the same rating that was applied to Princess Cruises’ Coral Princess when she arrived in Sydney last week with COVID-19 cases.

Pacific Explorer’s passengers had to provide a self-administered rapid antigen test within 24 hours of disembarking in Sydney with the results subject to random checks.

The company will provide isolation accommodation for infected passengers who don’t have private transport to get home.

About the Author

Helen Hutcheon

Australasia correspondent

Helen Hutcheon did her cadetship on a shipping magazine and worked in P&O’s Sydney office for seven years as a public relations journalist.

For 19 years she was deputy editor of Travel Week, which was Australia’s leading trade newspaper that covered major local and international industry events.

In 2008 the late legendary Rama Rebbapragada presented her with an award from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cruising industry.’

In 2010 she won the Neil Frazer Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the cruise industry,’ elevating her to CLIA Australasia’s hall of fame.

She has been the Australasia correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review since 1997 and for Seatrade Insider (now Seatrade Cruise News) since its launch in 2000.

 

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