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While much of the nation's economy is back underway, albeit with restrictions due to COVID-19 still in place, one segment still stuck in port is the blue-water cruise industry. Earlier in April, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) updated its "Framework for Conditional Sailing Order" and released recommendations for travelers returning from cruise ships and river cruise voyages worldwide. And while the CDC is still prohibiting embarkations of large cruise ships at U.S. ports, the agency, it seems, has come to grips that U.S. citizens may nonetheless travel abroad to board a cruise ship. "CDC recommends that all people avoid travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, worldwide,' the agency states in an article dated April 12, 2021. "That's because the chance of getting COVID-19 on cruise ships is high since the virus appears to spread more easily between people in close quarters aboard ships." |