CDC Cruise Requirements Will Be Optional Starting on Saturday
byDaniel McCarthy/
Starting on Saturday, Jan. 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Conditional Sail Order, which governed how cruise lines could operate in a COVID environment including reporting requirements for COVID-19 cases and rules for mitigation and isolation onboard, will no longer be mandatory.
Instead, cruise lines will be able to decide for themselves whether to follow the program as the CDC makes the program voluntary.
据美国今日报道,第一次报道周三新闻,游轮将在1月21日之前进行。如果他们这样做,他们的船舶仍将出现在CDC的游轮颜色状态页面上,该页面将根据航行期间基于Covid-19数表示船舶。
If cruise lines opt not to continue operating under the Conditional Sail Order, their ships will be listed as gray on the CDC’s website.
CDC还改变了条件帆订单中的一些语言,在处理大流行时,巡航线条更具灵活性。
例如,CDC调查的阈值从乘客的乘客船上的.3%,自助餐或其他餐馆的自助食品再次被允许再次允许。预计戴着面膜磨损和测试等要求将继续。
More changes are expected to be revealed on Jan. 15 when the old order officially expires.
While the news is good news for the cruise industry, and an apparent federal vote of confidence in how the industry has operated in the COVID environment,the CDC's decision comes just a few weeks after it revealed a new advisory for cruise ship travel, telling all travelers, regardless of their vaccination status, to avoid cruise ship travel in light of the new rise in COVID-19 cases.
“导致Covid-19的病毒很容易在近距离船上的人们之间轻松传播,并且即使您完全接种疫苗并接受了Covid-19疫苗增压剂剂量,即使您的巡航船上的Covid-19的机会也很高,” the CDC’s new Level 4 warning, the highest level of advisory, still reads.
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) responded late last month, writing in a statement that “the decision by the CDC to raise the travel level for cruise is particularly perplexing considering the cases identified on cruise ships consistently make up a slim minority of the total population onboard.”
CLIA补充说,大多数病例船上或无症状或轻度本质上,在船上或陆上医疗资源没有负担。“
CLIA, along with the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) and the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA), have long pushed against CDC restrictions on cruise ships, as infection rates in the industry have been lower than overall infection rates in the U.S.
“Cruise ships offer a highly controlled environment with science-backed measures, known testing and vaccinated levels far above other venues or modes of transportation and travel, and significantly lower incidence rates than land,” CLIA’s statement continued.