MIAMI - Carnival Corp. says a passenger who died from COVID-19 didn’t contract the virus onboard the Carnival Vista ship."We are very sorry to hear about the death of a guest who sailed on Carnival Vista," a company spokesperson said in a statement to FOX Television Stations. "The guest almost certainly did not contract COVID on our ship, and she was assisted with expert medical care on board and was ultimately evacuated from Belize after we provided a resource to her family," the statement continued.
According to the New York Times, the passenger was a 77-year-old woman named Marilyn Tackett from Oklahoma. A statement on a GoFundMe page said she got sick and was diagnosed with COVID-19 at a hospital in Belize.