{"id":25523,"date":"2020-12-09T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/singapore-cruise-to-nowhere-ends-after-passenger-tests-positive-for-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:32:09","slug":"singapore-cruise-to-nowhere-ends-after-passenger-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25523","title":{"rendered":"Singapore &#8216;cruise to nowhere&#8217; ends after passenger tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post-pandemic test voyage is open only to city-state residents but 2,000 passengers were confined to their cabins after one contracted the virus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/09\/coronavirus-live-news-uk-science-chief-warns-britons-may-still-need-masks-next-winter-rudy-giuliani-to-leave-hospital\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A passenger on board a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/oct\/08\/singapore-launches-covid-secure-luxury-cruises-to-nowhere\">cruise-to-nowhere<\/a>\u201d from Singapore has tested positive for Covid-19, the operator Royal Caribbean said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore has been trialling the trips which are open only to the city-state\u2019s residents, make no stops and sail in waters close by. At 2.45 am on Wednesday morning, the captain of the Quantum of the Seas informed the 2,000 passengers that the ship was to return to dock a day early and that they should stay in their rooms, the Straits Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/suspected-covid-19-case-on-royal-caribbean-cruise-to-nowhere-ship-returns-to-singapore-mid\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At 8.10 the captain confirmed that a passenger had tested positive. Breakfast would be served to passengers in their rooms, he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/singapore-cruise-to-nowhere-ends-after-passenger-tests-positive-for-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post-pandemic test voyage is open only to city-state residents but 2,000 passengers were confined to their cabins after one contracted the virusCoronavirus latest updatesA passenger on board a \u201ccruise-to-nowhere\u201d from Singapore has tested positive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,1107,783,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-cruises","category-singapore","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25524,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25523\/revisions\/25524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}