Yesterday, we got a call in the morning telling us that a nurse would be around to perform our Day 5 covid test. No time estimate, of course, but the nurse did arrive a couple hours later. We were emailed with log in information to a website to get our results. An hour or so later, our first test results came back negative. It would be another few hours before medical called and, after some confusion, confirmed that our covid tests had come back negative.
This morning, there was no warning call, but a nurse knocked on our door and took a quick swab from both of us. Online, we can see that the results our negative again. But, of course, we've heard nothing to clarify what this means for us.
The letter we received before moving into our quarantine room on Deck 6 said that we would be tested on Days 5 and 6. If we remained asymptomatic and tested negative on both days, we would be allowed to leave our room wearing masks.
As a practical matter, however, this is ridiculous because the room keys we have from our previous cruise do not work on this stateroom door. So we cannot both leave the room if we plan to return to it. Further, being aboard a ship without credentials is, as Craig has described it, a bit like being a ghost or a stowaway.
Craig called the medical office and was informed that the doctor was reviewing results and would be calling with more information. The nurse who performed our tests on Day 5 told us that if both tests were negative, we would be "released". But again, we do not know what that actually means.
UPDATE: The medical office called us! We have been released from isolation. We were told to pack up all of our things and guest services would call us to move us to a new room.* Or, if we were packed before we got a call, we could call guest services and tell them that the doctor has released us.
We packed up the room in record time and called guest services...
Just to learn that the new staterooms are not yet ready (they may have told Craig that they had to assign and ready more than ten rooms this morning, but he isn't entirely sure that's exactly what the man was grumbling). So we have unpacked our computers to play games while we wait for a phone call.
*This move certainly suggests that the other dozen-plus rooms we can see down the hall, with trays outside after every meal, contain one or more guests who are within the first five days of isolation, still testing positive, or have symptoms.
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