The Ministry of Health may allow Meraviglia cruise ship passengers to disembark when it arrives in The Bahamas today, Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands said yesterday. The cruise ship was recently denied entry in Jamaica due to fears that a passenger might have the new coronavirus, recently named COVID-19. “At the end of the day, this ship was, indeed, refused admission in Jamaica, but the reason why they were not allowed to disembark was related to an inability of the ship to fulfill their international maritime obligations,” Sands said when called for comment. “The ship, by time as they were able to fulfill, they didn’t have any time to have passengers disembark.

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