The Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas cruise ship left for a seven-night journey on Sunday, and had scheduled stops in Haiti, Jamaica and Mexico, as per its itinerary. A cruise passenger, Cody Haddap, told a CNN-affiliate local channel that he fell after the ship had left Haiti on Tuesday.
"We left port there around 4 yesterday, started getting sick last night around 10. We've been pretty much confined to our rooms,” he told the channel. He also shared a letter received by the guests on ship that informed about the situation on board. The letter read, "During this sailing, there has been a small percentage of guests onboard who have experienced gastrointestinal illness, thought to be norovirus."
Norovirus is the one the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in the United States, CNN reported. Officials with the Royal Caribbean said that they had sent the samples from the cruise to the lab to determine if the infection was indeed norovirus, the report added.
Owen Torres, spokesperson for Royal Caribbean told the news channel, "All of the ship's guests will receive full refunds of their cruise fare paid. We think the right thing to do is to get everyone home early rather than have guests worry about their health."
The Oasis of the Seas, which happens to be one of the newest additions to Royal Caribbean cruise fleet, which has the passenger strength of 8,000 people, out of which 3% fell ill, CNN reported.
The last outbreak on a Royal Caribbean cruise - Independence of the Seas - was in 2017, as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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