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Passengers on board the MS Zaandam, a Holland America Line cruise ship, have been asked to remain in their cabins because several crew members and guests had begun exhibiting flu-like symptoms. 

Global cruise giant Carnival Corporation expects net loss results of operations for the fiscal year ending 30 November 2020, as a result of the disruptions brought by COVID-19 pandemic. 

UK-based union Nautilus International is working with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) to support seafarers affected by sudden lay-offs and contract voiding due to cruise cancellations mid voyage, amid the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Carnival Corporation announced that select cruise ships from the company's cruise line brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and P&O Cruises Australia, will be made available to communities for use as temporary hospitals.

Two cruise ships were planned to dock at Honolulu Harbor at the end of this week, but passengers will not get permissions to disembark.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the crewmember onboard MV Corona, which was suspected of having the coronavirus, was eventually tested negative. At the same time, AIDAmira cruise ship which was also quarantined at the Port of Cape Town in South Africa, amid COVID-19 suspicion, found to be uninfected.

In the latest of several measures taken to contain the impacts of COVID-19, UK-based Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV) gave the opportunity to Australian passengers onboard the cruise ship Columbus to be transferred to sister ship Vasco Da Gama which will head to Fremantle. 

As a response to the global COVID-19 outbreak, Norwegian expedition cruise operator Hurtigruten announced it will voluntarily stop operations from pole to pole until the end of April.

The ITF urged flag states to take responsibility and account for the health and wellbeing of all crew and passengers onboard their vessels, amid the humanitarian crisis brought by COVID-19 pandemic. 

South Africa is holding the cruise liner MV AidAmira, along with a cargo vessel off Cape Town after a crew member on board one of the ships presented signs of COVID-19, national ports operator Transnet reported on March, 17, Tuesday.