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A judge on Wednesday ruled that Carnival Cruises was negligent in allowing an early-pandemic cruise—on which almost 700 passengers contracted Covid and 28 people later died of the illness—to depart from Sydney despite having already experienced coronavirus outbreaks aboard several of its ships.
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A federal court judge in Australia on Wednesday ruled that cruise operator Carnival and its subsidiary Princess Cruises, which owns the Ruby Princess ocean liner, was negligent in allowing the cruise to New Zealand to depart and said that it violated its duty to care for the health and safety of its passengers, the Associated Press reported.
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