1,700 people reported confined on cruise ship in Bordeaux after suspected norovirus death
More than 1,700 people – 1,233 passengers and 514 crew members – are confined on a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after a death of a 90-year-old passenger amid a reported gastroenteritis outbreak, AFP and Le Figaro reported.
Some fifty people have shown symptoms of norovirus, prompting the French health authorities to step in, it was reported.
The Ambassador Cruise Line ship, which left Shetland Islands and cruised via Belfast, Liverpool, Brest to Bordeaux and is scheduled to travel onwards to Spain, is reportedly carrying mostly British and Irish passengers, according to Le Figaro and AFP.