On the cruise ship Zaandam, of the Holland-America Line (HAL), which is currently located off the coast of Panama, the corona virus was detected. Four of the passengers died. That is reported by the cruise-based organization on Friday in a statement.

Zaandam was on a cruise along the coast of South America, and on the 7th of march, leaving from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The goal was to be on the 21st of march, at the dock in Chile, but due to the global outbreak of the corona virus has been none since the 14th of march, the ship went down.

On the ship, there are 1,242 leased equipment, passengers and 568 men. 53 of the passengers and 85 crew members have reported flu-like symptoms. They are all in the zelfisolatie in their cab. During testing, a number of the passengers was found Thursday and that the two of them, the COVID-19-the virus. It is not known if any of the four deceased passengers in that age-were dying from the effects of the virus.