Raphael John-Lall

All of the 29 cruise ship work­ers from the Car­ni­val Fan­ta­sy Cruise Ship have test­ed neg­a­tive for the COVID-19 ac­cord­ing to one of the cruise ship work­ers who spoke to the Sun­day Guardian anony­mous­ly.

The 29 T&T na­tion­als had spent months aboard the Cruise Ship and land­ed in Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day.

They are all now quar­an­tined at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua.

They are quar­an­tined for 14 days and with­in that time there will be an­oth­er test.

“All of our test re­sults came back neg­a­tive. We have one more test com­ing to the end of our 14-day stay,” the cruise work­er told the Sun­day Guardian.

The cruise work­er added: “We are all hap­py about the re­sults and al­so glad that we are spend­ing this time to­geth­er. Our fam­i­ly and friends have been able to de­liv­er items for us as well. Even though the fa­cil­i­ty is not what we ex­pect­ed, we are re­al­ly mak­ing the best of it to­geth­er.”

The per­son al­so praised the med­ical staff for do­ing a “great job.”

The 29 na­tion­als were among hun­dreds of cruise ship work­ers who have been clam­our­ing for the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ter­ven­tion to re­turn home af­ter they be­came strand­ed in coun­tries where they op­er­ate when T&T shut its bor­ders in March.