Norwegian cruises set sail from Seattle, US ports with 100% vaccination requirement
There may have been a lengthy lineup at the COVID testing facility outside Port of Seattle’s Pier 66 over the weekend, but the sentiment was unanimous among eager cruise passengers and personnel: the wait was worth it.
This wait has been well over a year in the making. With this seven-day roundtrip sailing from Seattle to Alaska, Norwegian Encore made history as the first ship in the NCL fleet to return to cruising from a U.S. port in over 500 days.
Harry Sommer, president and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line, is sailing – with his family – aboard Encore this week. Dr. Stephen Ostroff, formerly of the CDC and current member of Norwegian’s SailSAFE Global Health and Wellness Council, is also on the ship. Ostroff previously served as Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Also cruising this week is John Y. Mason, another SailSAFE council member, who has worked with several government agencies and throughout his career focused his work on the minimization of microbial contamination risk to both humans and non-humans.
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