“I have anxiety. My husband’s life, and mine.“ Eva Brunswick, and Jürgen Wolff have been waiting for two weeks to your rescue. Together with 1800 other people, you are on the cruise ship “MS Zaandam” off the coast of Panama.
The ship had been denied out of concern about the dissemination of Coronavirus, the entrance to the port. Four passengers have already died. 138 people show flu-like symptoms, two have tested positive for the Coronavirus – the captain of the “MS Rotterdam informed” of his own Crew. The ship also belongs to the Holland-America Line and the “Zaandam” on Thursday evening, came to the aid of, in order to supply the passengers medical.
“MS Zaandam” for a week under quarantine
a week Ago, the cruise company had made the “MS Zaandam” under quarantine. Since then, the Couple waits in vain. Help from Germany is not yet in sight. Therefore, the two decided to find a Video to support.
“My husband is 82 years old, I am 72 years old. On us five children and fourteen grandchildren waiting at home,“ explains Eva Brunswick. As she speaks of her family, is assigned to your voice. She is on the verge of tears, has only one message: “I ask for help”.
Out of concern for their grandparents, the grandchildren of the couple founded a Instagram channel. Under the name of “help.our.grandparents“ published the Video, try to attract attention. Attention of the government, attention from people, which can rid your grandparents out of this nightmare. “Please help us to share this photo and this message, so that we can save with the help of the politicians, our grandma and our grandpa.”
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“the Situation on the ship is almost not to understand”
“It all feels so surreal. The Situation here on the ship is almost to grasp,“ says Eva Braunschweig in an interview with FOCUS Online. “We are for a week in quarantine, in our little cabin.” The Couple have a small balcony, the air was so humid that you could out of it.
“nobody gets in more, I have even tried to clean. The food is not barren of every day, there are enough healthy personnel. We are waiting for the things – and this uncertainty is unlikely to endure“.
On Thursday, another ship of the cruise company Holland America Line came to the aid of, to supply to patients on Board medical. Healthy patients should be placed in the return to the “MS Rotterdam”. Here, passengers priority, which are housed in the inside cabins, as well as persons over 70 years. The top requirement: you must be healthy.
there is Not enough testing facilities
“On Board, but there is no sufficient test kits,” explains the 72-Year-old. “For us, only fever was measured.”
The incubation period in Covid-19 is up to 14 days. With pure temperature measurement can not be clearly determined whether a person is actually healthy – to do this, a Test would be necessary. “That’s what makes us great, Yes a huge fear,” said Eva Brunswick. “We don’t know who carries the Virus already.”
Eva Brunswick, and Jürgen Wolff could not be so far from the Board, for today you are still on the list of those allowed to go in the evening on the “MS Rotterdam”. “But if we’re not allowed to really over, not,” said Eva Braunschweig we know. “But even if it changes nothing to the Situation. We are still under quarantine, only on a different ship in a different cabin.“
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“We will not forget”
it had Been a fortnight ago, the Couple listed on the Elefand list. A registration on the Electronic registration of Germans abroad is the prerequisite to get emergency help and support to the consulates.
with the German Consulate in Santiago, Chile, the Couple had already been in contact. At the time, they were still assumed to be able to disembark. However, with the imposed quarantine was impossible. The Couple was once again on the list, is now waiting for feedback.
“I have confidence in the government,” says Eva Brunswick, “but in the current situation, this uncertainty is just unbearable. the We are afraid. We don’t want to be forgotten. If I should say to Mrs Merkel something, then it would be: Save us! You can help us! You can get us home. “
your great hope: the journey through the Panama canal. If that is allowed the ship, could get the Couple to Fort Lauderdale (Florida), “to fly from there, hopefully, home.”
Eva Brunswick, The Couple only a desire to come Back home.
foreign office is in contact with the authorities and shipping company
According to information from FOCUS Online, the cruise ship will receive a special permit to pass through the Panama canal. Approximately 70 people among the passengers aboard the German nationality should have. There have been cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Board.
The Federal government is working with high pressure, to contribute to a solution. The Foreign office reported on request by FOCUS Online: “The Foreign office is with the authorities and the shipping company Holland America Line in close exchange and is making a great effort to find solutions to support the German passengers.”
Further, it was said, death of German among the passengers aboard the MS Zandaam be known. The authority of foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD), as it was called out of his home, also with passengers on Board contact.
“We just want to go home”
But even if the “MS Zaandam” will be allowed to Pass through the Panama canal to Fort are Lauderdale other 2700 kilometers, the trip there would take a further three days. “Three more days on this ship, in the cabin, in quarantine.” Equally uncertain is it whether the Pair can fly from there directly to Germany.
Eva Braunschweig declared: “I hope to be of help and support, even on the flight home from the USA to Germany. This is my greatest desire: We just want to go home.“
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