The study is the first to find the virus living on surfaces for so long.
, where passengers and crew were quarantined after guests tested positive for COVID-19 after landing ashore.
Researchers who studied the docked ships determined that there were still traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA present inside passenger cabins 17 days after the 3,711 passengers and crew were removed. They also found that 712 of 3,711 people on board the Diamond Princess were infected by COVID-19. The ship quickly became the largest confirmed COVID-19 cluster outside of China at the time.
They also noted that as of March 17, there were at least 25 cruise ship voyages with confirmed COVID-19 cases that were detected either during or after the cruise ended. An estimated 30 million passengers are transported on 272 cruise ships worldwide each year.examined respiratory samples from nearly 200 patients, including 54 who died from the disease and detected COVID-19 RNA in respiratory samples from survivors after a median of 20 days after they first contracted it.
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