SECOND MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF NO SAIL ORDER AND OTHER MEASURES RELATED TO OPERATIONS

Source: Centers for Disease Control

Original Date Posted: 7/16/2020

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread rapidly around the world with no treatment or vaccine, with over 12.5 million confirmed cases and over 560,000 confirmed deaths worldwide as of July 12, 2020. On July 12, 2020, 230,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported, the largest single-day tally worldwide since the epidemic began. It took 3 months to reach the first million cases of COVID-19, but during one week in June 2020, 1 million new cases were reported worldwide. Since HHS/CDC’s original No Sail Order, signed on March 14, 2020, which restricted the embarkation of passengers, CDC has worked to control COVID-19 on cruise ships that remained at sea, while protecting against further introduction and spread of COVID-19 into U.S. communities. As of July 10, 2020, CDC has expended an estimated 38,000 person-hours on the cruise ship COVID-19 response since March 14, 2020—in addition to the thousands of hours invested by other HHS components, other U.S. government agencies, and state and local authorities. CDC continues to have regular conversations by phone and email with cruise lines, often daily.

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