{"id":662869,"date":"2026-05-11T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662869\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:09:11","slug":"australians-evacuated-from-cruise-ship-after-virus-deaths-the-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662869\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians evacuated from cruise ship after virus deaths | The Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-lg font-normal leading-9 text-gray-800 md:text-xl md:leading-8 [&amp;_a]:text-gray-800 [&amp;_a]:underline [&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-500 hover:[&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-800\">The Australian citizens and permanent resident live in NSW and Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lg font-normal leading-9 text-gray-800 md:text-xl md:leading-8 [&amp;_a]:text-gray-800 [&amp;_a]:underline [&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-500 hover:[&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-800\">Medical personnel will be onboard the repatriation flight to monitor the passengers throughout their journey home and secure transportation to quarantine facilities will be in place for their arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lg font-normal leading-9 text-gray-800 md:text-xl md:leading-8 [&amp;_a]:text-gray-800 [&amp;_a]:underline [&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-500 hover:[&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-800\">The government was focused on ensuring every Australian gets the care they need, Senator Watt said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lg font-normal leading-9 text-gray-800 md:text-xl md:leading-8 [&amp;_a]:text-gray-800 [&amp;_a]:underline [&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-500 hover:[&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-800\">&#8220;This is not a situation that people have walked into deliberately, and I think all Australians would want to see each other looked after in this sort of situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lg font-normal leading-9 text-gray-800 md:text-xl md:leading-8 [&amp;_a]:text-gray-800 [&amp;_a]:underline [&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-500 hover:[&amp;_a]:decoration-gray-800\">Australian Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian citizens and permanent resident live in NSW and Queensland. Medical personnel will be onboard the repatriation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-662869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}