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《今日美国》报道,周三首次报道了这一消息,克鲁斯线将在1月21日之前选择加入。如果这样做,他们的船只仍将出现在CDC的Cruise船颜色状态页面上,该页面在航行过程中指定了基于Covid-19的数字的船舶。
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.
疾病预防控制中心还改变了有条件的帆订单中的一些语言,在处理大流行时,巡航线更加灵活。
例如,疾病预防控制中心(CDC)调查的门槛从船上的乘客中的0.1%案件增加到.3%,而自助餐或其他餐馆的自助服务将再次允许在船上。预计戴面膜和测试等其他要求将继续。
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的病毒很容易在船上的近距离船只之间在人之间传播,即使您已经完全疫苗接种并接受了Covid-19疫苗增强剂量,在巡航船上获得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,大多数案件在船上或无症状或“本质上的温和,对船上或陆上的医疗资源几乎没有负担”。
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.