Posted by Eric Stone | Jul 20, 2021
The Royal Caribbean ship Serenade of the Seas approaches Ketchikan during a test cruise with volunteer passengers on July 9. (Eric Stone/KRBD)
A growing COVID-19 outbreak in Sitka isn’t likely to affect Wednesday’s arrival of Alaska’s first large cruise ship to bring commercial passengers since 2019.
Royal Caribbean officials put out a statement Tuesday touting the Serenade of the Seas’ 7-day cruise to Alaska.
Sitka Emergency Operations Center Incident Commander Craig Warren said Tuesday afternoon that as far as he knows, the stop in Sitka is a go.
“We have contacted them and talked with them regarding the ship coming in tomorrow with our high COVID case count here,” Warren said. “And as it stands right now, they are still planning on coming in.”