People cruising out of Galveston and other U.S. ports can longer use a government website to check if their ships have recently COVID-19 outbreaks on board.
The Carnival Vista is shown at the Port of Galveston as traffic and people move along 25th St. Friday, July 2, 2021 in Galveston. The Carnival Vista will be the first cruise to sail out of Galveston since the pandemic.this week ended a program that publicly reported COVID cases
. For more than a year, the industry was under a no-sail order, because federal officials judged the risk of COVID spreading in the close quarters of a cruise ship to be to great to be allowed. Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean Cruises, the two cruise companies currently operating out of the Port of Galveston,Port of Galveston officials said they expected the further loosening of restrictions around cruises to lead to more people sailing out of Galveston.
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