MIAMI, Fla. – Despite continued efforts through diplomatic channels, 13 international guests will stay aboard the Coral Princess with crew members for a self-imposed 14-day quarantine. The passengers will stay on board and be monitored to reduce the possibility of transmission if either guests or crew become symptomatic. The cruise line said additional members boarded the Coral Princess Thursday to assist in the quarantine. Coral Princess left the Port of Miami Thursday around 7 p.m.Five charter flights were scheduled for departure Thursday for the remaining passengers who were allowed to disembark. Princess Cruises did not offer information as to what countries the passengers were from, or where the ship was headed after leaving Miami’s port.

MIAMI – About 90 international passengers remain aboard the Coral Princess ship at PortMiami, as others left Tuesday on nine additional domestic charter flights, a spokesperson for Princess Cruises said. Princess Cruises confirmed two people on board died while the ship was at sea and there were 12 cases of the new coronavirus. A third passenger, Wilson Maa, of California, died at a Hialeah hospital Saturday night after waiting for hours to be taken off the ship. The cruise line said 545 guests disembarked Coral Princess on Sunday and another 139 left Monday, leaving 274 on board. According to the spokesperson, Coral Princess departed March 5 from San Antonio (Santiago) for a South America voyage, which was scheduled to end in Buenos Aires on March 19.

“Yes ... right now ... OK.”It was the news Beehler, 72, had been waiting for — she would be among 134 Coral Princess cruise passengers on a charter flight home Monday afternoon. Hundreds of passengers from the Coral Princess are already back home in the United Kingdom as other passengers wait for when they will be allowed to get off the ship that docked at PortMiami on Saturday. Princess Cruise Line confirmed two people on board died while the ship was at sea and there were 12 cases of the new coronavirus. The cruise line says 545 guests disembarked Coral Princess on Sunday and another 139 left Monday, leaving 274 on board. “The information is very sketchy for us right now,” Coral Princess passenger David Fowler said.

MIAMI, Fla. – The Coral Princess docked at Port Miami screened every soul before the people were loaded onto buses and headed to the airport. But the process did not happen fast enough for married couple Wilson and Toyling Maa. Lisa Ouchida is now worried about her sister, Toyling, who is in the hospital. Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26) is now calling for an investigation by local authorities. Mucarsel-Powell said that Maa and his wife waited "four hours before being transported to a hospital."

People look out from the Coral Princess cruise ship as it is docked at PortMiami during the new coronavirus outbreak, Saturday, April 4, 2020, in Miami. According to Princess Cruises, disembarkation of guests is expected to take several days due to limited flight availability. The Princess Cruises ship, which docked Saturday in Miami, also began disembarking on Sunday fit passengers who were cleared for charter flights out. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Sunday ordered a local hospital physician and nurses dispatched to PortMiami to assist medical staff aboard the Coral Princess. The Coral Princess had been on a South American cruise that was due to end March 19 in Buenos Aires.

MIAMI, Fla. – Christine Beehler is one of 1,020 passengers that arrived into the Port of Miami aboard the Coral Princess Saturday morning. Since March 31, the Coral Princess has been in isolation. The Coral Princess’ original destination was Port Everglades, but the U.S. Coast Guard denied their entrance to Fort Lauderdale. The captain of the Coral Princess made this announcement to passengers as the ship pulled into the port. They will have to quarantine aboard the ship.

MIAMI – The Coral Princess cruise ship arrived at Port Miami Saturday morning, hours after being denied entry at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. On Saturday night, one of the very first groups of passengers cleared to return, 50 Floridians, departed the Coral Princess ship. Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corp., switched the Coral Princess’ original destination from Fort Lauderdale. The Coral Princess departed March 5 from Chile. The Regal Princess delivered supplies to the Coral Princess.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Coral Princess cruise ship is currently sailing a South America voyage amid the coronavirus pandemic and is expected to arrive to Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, April 5. According to a news release, the ship was expected to sail to Rio de Janeiro Tuesday in an effort to repatriate guests as quickly as possible. “Although Brazil has been closed to cruise ship traffic, we are working through diplomatic channels to obtain permission and have received positive responses,” the cruise line stated in the news release. “Guests who purchased flights through Princess will be automatically rebooked on flights,” the news release stated. Princess Cruises will continue to provide updates on Coral Princess in the Notices & Advisories section of the online newsroom.