Ruby Princess did the correct reporting. Instead of physically checking the reported fever etc cases, the NSW Health Department classed the ship as low risk and allowed the pax to disembark. It was only after pax ashore tested positive, that the debacle escalated. We had the ABF (Customs) top official on TV today saying they had been given approval by the Health Department to allow pax to go ashore. The blame game is alive and well.
Another ship arrived in Melbourne recently with a number of fever etc cases on board and the Victorian Health Department officials boarded shortly after arrival (no one else was allowed to board or debark) to take swabs and, until they were cleared (all tested negative luckily), all the pax stayed on board (until approx. 1545). This should have occurred in Sydney on the Ruby Princess in my view.
Stay safe