Cruise Ship Passengers Confining to Their Cabin Due to More Than 700 People infected in the Maritime incidence

P&O Cruises' ship Ventura experienced a stomach bug outbreak during a Canary Islands cruise, leading to an unknown number of passengers isolating and enhanced sanitation protocols implemented.

An unknown number of passengers of P&O Cruises’ ship Ventura have been separated from the rest of the shipmates as they are quarantined to their rooms during a two-week cruise around the Canary Islands.

The Ventura, an equivalent of 3,000 passengers and 1,200 crew was reported to have embarked from Southampton on the 11th of May. Sickness passengers passed reports with gut disturbance symptoms, and P&O Cruises took this opportunity as an excuse to enhance sanitation across the ship.

While on Friday Ventura came to port in Tenerife, the cruise operator is still adhering to the "extended and heightened sanitization procedures". All the buffet self-service have been suspended, the on-board launderettes were closed and those that show any symptoms have been isolated.

"A broad-based protocol has been adopted, with qualified sanitation technicians constantly inspecting and segregating the affected people," a P&O Cruises spokesperson simply stated, the number of sick people, however, was not mentioned.

First of all, the spokesperson stressed that the safety and the health of the passengers and staff was the prime focus. They confirmed that the vessel wasn't, in fact, under full lockdown, although the public health precautions had been grouped accordingly.

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The dangerous norovirus and other infectious illnesses like them are not unusual in cruise ships where the passengers are confined together in a close setting. Cruise lines are relatively stringent in their sanitary rules and actions in the event of an outbreak that the cruise ships try to contain.