Adequate medical staffing (this can include telehealth or telemedicine providers).On-board isolation, quarantine, and physical distancing (maintaining at least 6 feet from others).On-board monitoring of crew and non-crew for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.Training of all crew on COVID-19 prevention and mitigation.Plans should include the following components: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s webpage, Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace external icon, provides ways to prevent workplace exposures to persons with COVID-19. Ship companies should develop, implement, and operationalize an appropriate, actionable, and robust plan to prevent, mitigate, and respond to the spread of COVID-19 on board ships. Plans to Mitigate COVID-19 on Board Ships
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CDC will update this interim guidance for ships as needed and as additional information becomes available. This document provides guidance for preventing the spread of COVID-19 during and after a voyage, including personal protective measures, management of sick or exposed persons on board, reporting suspected or confirmed cases, and cleaning and disinfection recommendations for common areas on the ship and areas previously occupied by individuals with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. However, CDC will continue to operate the CSO as a voluntary program for such ships, should they choose to follow the CSO measures on a voluntary basis. Note: As of July 23, 2021, the CSO and accompanying measures, such as technical instructions, are nonbinding recommendations for cruise ships arriving in, located within, or departing from a port in Florida. All commercial, non-cargo, foreign-flagged, passenger-carrying vessels operating in international, interstate, or intrastate waterways and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States with the capacity to carry 250 or more individuals (passengers and crew) with an itinerary anticipating an overnight stay on board or a twenty-four (24) hour stay on board for either passengers or crew.
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Foreign-flagged cruise ships operating under CDC’s Temporary Extension & Modification of Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO), including those ships that have chosen to voluntarily comply with the CSO’s measures, should continue to follow the requirements of the CSO, CDC’s Technical Instructions for Mitigation of COVID-19 Among Cruise Ship Crew and the COVID-19 Operations Manual for Simulated and Restricted Voyages under the Temporary Extension & Modification of Framework for Conditional Sailing Order.As ships travel worldwide, ship management and medical staff need to be aware of and respond to local jurisdictional requirements. This document provides guidance for ships originating from or porting in the United States to help prevent, detect, report, and medically manage suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases. Cleaning and disinfection protocols may reduce transmission of COVID-19 on ships.Due to the size and number of persons on board cruise ships, identification of contacts should be done on a case-by-case basis. After a COVID-19 case is identified on a non-cruise ship, all persons on board are considered contacts because of the close living and working conditions.Preventive measures, including hand hygiene, physical distancing, and wearing facemasks, are essential to maintaining ship operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.