Dr Ian Norton

They will be isolated to their cabins.

There's a lot of mental health issues that go along with that as well, at least on these.

This is an explorer class, so they should have some more room in their cabins than some of the more compressed, bigger cruise ships.

It is.

I can tell you that the people on board will feel like the world wants them to stay away.

And I'm seeing that in the media across the world, the fear.

But also, put yourself in the shoes of the people on board.

It's going to be much safer for them when we can get them on shore and looked after and safe, either clinical or hotels we've set up.

which are much easier to deal with.

If we force them to stay on board the ship for multiple weeks, then actually their risk is much higher.

So this is going to be key that we let them off.

It is, it is.

I mean, again, because we don't know everything about this particular Andes variant, we're going to need to make sure, you know, in some cases, if anybody has symptoms, that's definitely a medevac with a properly controlled environment in a medical evacuation plane.

They may well consider passenger aircraft, but as long as there's, you know, quite a large area of

of isolation around them.

So we usually work on rules about two rows front and forward and back is enough of a zone.

The air exchange is so fast on these commercial jets now that even if you had measles, which is incredibly infective and efficient at going from person to person, if you're more than two seats forward or back from the person with measles, then you're unlikely to get it.

Yeah, I'm just going off media reports.

Obviously, I'm not directly related to this case, but what I'm hearing and one of your reports even this morning on RT1 was that she may well have either cared for or had the interaction with this person just the day before she died.

Now, in these kind of...