A four-months' pregnant Jamaican is expected to be among the 200 crew members who will disembark from the Royal Caribbean cruise line's Adventure of the Seas vessel today as the first set of the 1,044 people on the cruise ship finally begin to make their way home.
The cruise ship docked in at the Falmouth Pier in Trelawny on Tuesday and, following medical and other checks over the past two days, the Jamaican crew members will start setting foot on land in groups of 200 today.
So we have identified those persons and they will be disembarked initially,” chief medical officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie told a digital COVID-19 media update yesterday.
Bisasor-McKenzie said the process of getting people off the ship was still being finalised as the health ministry was trying to get it done with the least amount of disruption.
According to Bisasor-McKenzie, the medical officer of health for Trelawny and a team boarded the ship yesterday and made arrangements for the ship to be held in quarantine while the Jamaicans disembark over a period of days in batches of 200.