Carnival Cruises drops exemption request for unvaccinated company, eases testing necessities

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Carnival Cruise Line is easing its testing necessities for vaccinated passengers and permitting unvaccinated company to journey with out an exemption. 

The cruise firm will now not demand testing for vaccinated passengers staying onboard for below 16 nights. Moreover, unvaccinated company will now not be required to file exemption requests.

The Carnival Freedom, proven right here in Italy in 2007. (Victor Sokolowicz/Bloomberg through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)

“Carnival is happy to announce new tips efficient for cruises departing on Sept. 6, 2022, or later, which can make it simpler for extra company to sail with simplified vaccination and testing tips, together with no testing for vaccinated company on sailings lower than 16 nights and eliminating the exemption request course of for unvaccinated company, who will solely want to point out a adverse check end result at embarkation,” the corporate introduced Saturday.

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Vaccinated company “should proceed to supply proof of their vaccination standing previous to embarkation,” in accordance with the brand new tips. 

Passengers board the Carnival Freedom in February 2013 in Key West, Fla. (Karen Bleier/AFP through Getty Photos / Reuters)

However unvaccinated passengers “are welcome to sail and are now not required to use for a vaccine exemption, aside from cruises in Australia or on voyages 16 nights and longer.”

Unvaccinated passengers will probably be required to current a adverse COVID-19 check from inside three days of departure.

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Cruises lasting greater than 16 nights will proceed to be topic to their very own restrictions.

The cruise trade is crusing uneven waters but once more because it contends with a storm of labor issues, red-hot inflation and a risk of recession after barely steadying itself from the blows of an 18-month shutdown as a result of pandemic.

Carnival Corp’s Queen Mary 2 cruise ship. (iStock / iStock)

The trade employs about 250,000 staff from over 100 international locations, and their jobs vary from a ship’s captain to a cocktail mixer, in accordance with the Cruise Strains Worldwide Affiliation.

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Cruise operators, nonetheless, are nonetheless assured in regards to the trade’s restoration in the long term, though the power of the summer season crusing season, which usually accounts for an enormous chunk of working revenue, remains to be below a cloud.

Reuters contributed to this report.