translated from Spanish: Passengers disembark in Uruguay from a ship with COVID-19-affected

Montevideo.- The last 14 passengers of the Australian ship Greg Mortimer, with many of its occupants affected by COVID-19, who will be repatriated from Uruguay landed on Wednesday in the port of Montevideo to be transferred to Carrasco International Airport.In an operation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in coordination with Public Health, Defense, Interior, Transportation and Public Works, and Economy and Finance, these U.S., Canadian and multi-nationals European passengers departed at 13.45 local time (16.45 GMT) at the port.

Many of them descended down the catwalk greeting those present, with gestures of appreciation or drawing hearts, such as from the deck as they entered the port, before heading to the airfield, where at 17.00 local time (20.00 GMT) they plan to board a medical flight to Miami (United States).

Cruise passengers Greg Mortimer. / Photo: EFE.

To get the latest news about coronavirus, sign up by clicking on this space and we’ll send you the information instantly. The 14 passengers who descended from the boat on Wednesday will be joined by a British citizen, who was hospitalized for several days in Montevideo due to breathing problems, who was discharged and who will be able to travel as well.

View of the bus that picks up passengers from the cruiser Greg Mortimer on Wednesday in the port of Montevideo. / Photo: EFE.

Unlike last Friday’s large deployment, when 112 Australian and New Zealand passengers were evacuated, on Wednesday the entourage was only made up of a bus, escorted by Navy devices – inside the port – and the Ministry of the Interior – on the way to the airport. The ship Greg Mortimer, of the Australian company Aurora Expeditions, docked on Wednesday, before 12.15 local time (15.15 GMT) on a pier in the Montevidean port, with several passengers on deck, covered in masks, drawing hearts with their hands. This operation, which was developed between major security measures, was supervised by the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Talvi, and Transport and Public Works, Luis Alberto Heber.The device had to be postponed 12 hours, due to the strong wind that blew on Tuesday in Montevideo, which prevented the approach of the ship to the port, and developed in good weather conditions until the landing of the passengers was completed, when it began to start. The cruiser Greg Mortimer departed Ushuaia (Argentina) for the Canary Islands with 132 passengers and 85 crew members and arrived in Montevideo when one of its occupants, the first evacuated on 31 March, had breathing problems associated with the coronavirus. As Talvi explained to the journalists present there, this cruise never had Uruguay on its map and “was left adrift with a very compromised situation, the explosion of the coronavirus”. Uruguay has been in a health emergency since 13 March, when the first four positives were unveiled by COVID-19, although there is no mandatory quarantine. According to the latest figures offered by the authorities on Tuesday, there are 492 positive coVID-19 cases in the South American country, 8 deaths and 260 recovered.



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