Viking Cruises named its newest ocean-going ship in a ceremony in Valletta, Malta, on Tuesday, May 17. Delivered earlier this month by Italian shipyard Fincantieri, Vikin ..
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According to a Forbes report, Viking Star will offer daily PCR testing to all passengers and crew via the first floating laboratory of its kind at sea, making it in the first cruise ship to this.
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Once considered the petri-dish of the pre-pandemic era, cruise ships, and the cruise industry in general, has been making serious strides towards a better, cleaner future. This week, those strides come to us from luxury cruise line Viking, who...
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As cruise lines prepare to resume sailing under protocols calling for extensive COVID-19 testing of passengers and crew, Torstein Hagen’s Viking Cruises said today that it has completed installation of the first full-scale PCR laboratory at sea.
This new onboard facility – claimed as an industry first – enables Viking to conduct PCR testing of all crew members and guests with a non-invasive saliva test.
This first laboratory has been installed on the company’s 930-guest ocean vessel Viking Star;...
https://www.marinelog.com/shipping/cruising/viking-cruises-installs-first-full-scale-pcr-lab-at-sea/