CDC Extends ‘No Sail Order’ for All Cruise Ships by At Least 100 Days

Passengers stand on board the Royal Caribbean's Navigator Of The Seas cruise ship at the Port of Miami on March 9.Photographer: Jayme Gershen/Bloomberg

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By Jonathan Levin

April 10, 2020 at 12:54 AM UTC

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended its “No Sail Order” for all cruise ships by at least 100 days -- or until Covid-19 is no longer considered a public health emergency.

The CDC said there are 100 cruise ships at sea off U.S. coasts, with 80,000 crew members on board. Twenty ships at port or anchorage in the U.S. have known or suspected Covid-19 among crew, according to the agency’s statement Thursday.