HANOI: A cruise ship that had spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over fears that someone aboard may have the coronavirus arrived in Cambodia on Thursday (Feb 13), according to passengers and ship tracking data. The MS Westerdam arrived at an anchoring point in the Cambodian port town of Sihanoukville early on Thursday morning, according to data published by the Marine Traffic website.
“We’ve had so many near moments we thought we were going home only to be turned away,” Angela Jones, an American tourist on board the ship, told Reuters.
Jones and her fellow passengers had spent almost two weeks at sea as the ship failed to find a country that would allow it to dock.
“This morning, just seeing land was such a breathtaking moment,” said Jones.
“I thought: Is this real?”
Passengers onboard the ship have been subjected to regular health checks throughout the troubled journey, according to Holland America,
the ship operator and a unit of Miami-based Carnival Corp.
