Cruise ship Vasco da Gama (Vasco da Gama)(image from ABC website)
The Governor of Western Australia, McGovern (Mark McGowan), will prepare Australian cruise passengers disembarking from Perth to implement the "Isolation Measures on Rotnest Island (Rottnest)".
The cruise ship, Vasco da Gama (Vasco da Gama), will arrive at the port of Freemanto (Fremantle) on Friday, and the Australian citizen on board will be taken to the resort island off the coast of Perth and require self-segregation on the island for two weeks. Mr. McGovern noted that "all Australian citizen,, including Western Australia citizen, will be immediately transferred to Rotnest Island for a 14-day period of self-segregation. Over the past two days, we have secured and provided accommodation, catering and security services to the island`s visitors. We are now ready to implement isolation on the island. "
The cruise ship carried 950 passengers and 550 crew members. A total of 800 Australian cruise ships are known citizen, including 200 Western Australian passengers.
Mr mcgovern said the port of fremanto also banned two more recent cruise ships, which had stalled offshore.
International travellers will remain on the Vasco da Gama cruise ship
It is believed that there are 109 New Zealand passengers on the cruise ship, with the rest from other countries ,33 of whom are from the United Kingdom.
According to Mr. McGonagall ," We are currently in the process of verifying with the Federal government of Australia whether some international passengers on cruise ships are permanent residents of Australia ". The port of Freemanto is the last port of call for the cruise ship from which passengers also plan to disembark.
"Until flight arrangements are in place for all crew members and international passengers to leave the country, they will remain on the cruise ship temporarily and will not disembark unless they go directly to the airport under strict supervision, or they will need emergency medical assistance to disembark. Passengers who need to return to New Zealand will also remain on board, and we are working with New Zealand government on a plan to get these passengers home as safely as possible. "
