Dr Ian Norton

It is.

It's different, as the WHO said yesterday.

At least I suppose we now understand what those words mean to some extent.

Yeah, this is super unusual.

It's probably one of our

Worst case scenarios with a dangerous disease, high mortality rate, requires a lot of intensive care if you catch it.

And we don't know enough about this particular strain as to really...

no hands transmitted for sure.

So we'll have to be very careful with the way personal protective equipment is worn and particularly how we look after the staff and the crew as well as the passengers on board.

Yeah, we had to run a few of these during COVID.

Of the first big three cruise ships, I managed two of them in San Francisco and also in Sydney.

And it's very tough.

We have to create a sort of green zone on a certain deck.

So there will be an area which is considered safe, as it were, where the crew members are having to go door to door and check on each passenger in their rooms.

They'll come in, put their protective equipment on.

They'll go out along the corridors to check on everybody.

to make sure they're doing well, haven't got a fever, don't have any other symptoms.

And then when they come back into that safe zone or green zone, they'll take their personal protective gear off

I really hope that they manage to load a lot of PPE or personal protective equipment on board when they were in Cabo Verde because they'll be going through a lot of that stuff.

It's also a question of how you feed and supply everybody in each of their rooms.