CORONAVIRS | About 400 passengers of Ruby Princess have tested positive for Covid-19 and 15 died.
| Australian police have spoken to the captain of a cruise ship which disembarked hundreds of passengers infected with the coronavirus in Sydney, as part of a homicide investigation into the country's deadliest single source of infection.owned by Carnival Corp has become a flashpoint of public anger in Australia after authorities granted the ship permission to disembark its passengers last month without health checks.
"They spoke to the captain of the ship, who was extremely helpful," Fuller said in a televised news conference on Thursday. The investigation comes as Australia battles to keep the brakes on its rate of infection over the Easter holiday period, with the government imploring people to stay at home and cancel trips to traditional vacation spots this weekend.
"We can't lift our foot off the pedal, we need to stay vigilant, make sure we clamp down on the community-to-community transmission," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters.
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