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Update 23 November: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its 'COVID-19 and Cruise Ship Travel' notice page. CDC “still recommends avoiding any travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, worldwide, because the risk of COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high". They reiterate "it is especially important that people with an increased risk of severe illness avoid travel on cruise ships, including river cruises”. As per the below news item, on 30 October, 2020, CDC issued a Framework for Conditional Sailing Order for cruise ships operating or seeking to operate in U.S. waters. This Order introduces a phased approach for resuming passenger cruises.
Posted 30 October: The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will lift its no-sail order for cruises, issued in March and banning large cruise ships from operating in U.S. waters since March. It will be replaced on 1 November with a Framework for Conditional Sailing Order which lays out a phased approach for how to resume passenger cruises. The CDC states that cruise ship travel "facilitates and amplifies" COVID-19 infections, even when boats sail at reduced passenger capacity, and thus public health oversight is necessary to resume operations. The CDC states, "Cruising safely and responsibly during a global pandemic is very challenging." In the beginning phases of the plan, cruise companies must show they're following testing, quarantine and isolation, and social distancing requirements to protect crew members. Simultaneously they are expected to build laboratory capacity necessary test passengers and crew. Mock voyages would be included in the next step, with ships gaining certification if they meet requirements. The CDC's information for cruise travellers gives more details.
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