MSC Magnifica is planned to resume operations starting with an eight-night Christmas cruise, before returning to its typical 10-night itinerary across the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, calling at Italy, Greece and Malta until the end of April next year.
2021 world cruise cancelled
Next year’s world cruise on board Magnifica is cancelled due to the health situation ashore and the unavailability of most ports on the itinerary.
MSC Grandiosa
MSC’s flagship will extend sailings to March 27 and continue its seven-night cruises in the Western Mediterranean, with embarkations at Genoa, Civitavecchia, Naples and Palermo, Italy, as well as calling at Valetta, Malta.
Passengers to be tested mid-cruise, crew weekly
In addition to last month being granted RINA’s Biosafe certification, Grandiosa will adopt new health and hygiene measures, including additional on-board testing for all passengers mid-way through the cruise and crew testing increased from twice a month to weekly. These measures are on top of universal pre-embarkation testing for passengers and crew.
Frequency of on-board sanitation, in particular of public areas and high touch points, will be escalated.
The definition of 'close contact' for tracing purposes will reduce the time from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.
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