{"id":20325,"date":"2020-10-29T04:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/60-german-river-cruise-passengers-contract-covid-19\/20325\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T04:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:56:39","slug":"60-german-river-cruise-passengers-contract-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/60-german-river-cruise-passengers-contract-covid-19\/20325\/","title":{"rendered":"60 German River Cruise Passengers Contract COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About 60 former passengers from a themed cruise aboard the river cruise ship Swiss Crystal <\/em>have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the voyage's organizers. <\/p>\n

92 passengers were on board for the trip, and the majority have returned a positive test result. Organizer Hanspeter Balsiger – who was among those who caught the disease – told local outlet Blick that standard precautions were taken before and during the voyage. <\/p>\n

The itinerary in question was a folk-music themed cruise, and it featured hours of singing in enclosed spaces – including yodelling. Passenger Daniel Kissling told Blick that while social distancing was maintained, mask wearing was not uniformly observed during the music-making. <\/p>\n

Public health experts have previously identified group singing events (like church choirs) as high-risk activity due to the potential for droplet and aerosol spread. In one superspreader event which CDC researchers published<\/a> as a case study, as many as 52 out of 61 attendees at a choir practice likely contracted COVID-19 from one asymptomatic participant. <\/p>\n

Germany renews its lockdown<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After a long lull, COVID-19 case counts are rising in Northern Europe again. On Wednesday, Germany and France announced another round of nationwide lockdowns to address a rapid expansion in hospitalizations and cases. The number of patients in Germany's intensive care units has doubled within the past 10 days. <\/p>\n

“We no longer have control of the spread of the virus,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a news conference Wednesday. “If the tempo of infections stays the same, we will reach the capacity of our health-care system within weeks."<\/p>\n

Beginning Monday, clubs, restaurants and bars will close across Germany, and social gatherings will be limited to a maximum of two households and 10 participants. Unlike the lockdown that the German government instituted earlier this year, schools and a range of non-essential businesses will be allowed to remain open. <\/p>\n

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About 60 former passengers from a themed cruise aboard the river cruise ship Swiss Crystal have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the voyage's organizers.  92 passengers were on board for the trip, and the majority have returned a positive test result. Organizer Hanspeter Balsiger – who was among those who caught the disease – …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11710,2237,1034,1955,1154,1153,79,237,3797,1150,12788,3938],"class_list":["post-20325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-clubs","tag-contract","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-covid19","tag-cruise","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-lockdown","tag-passengers","tag-restaurants","tag-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/20326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}