WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday gave new direction to the cruise ship industry, including the requirement for Covid-19 vaccinations, an essential advance before traveler journeys can continue.

The new specialized guidelines, the primary update since October, incorporate expanding from week after week to day by day reporting recurrence of Covid-19 cases and diseases and executing routine testing of all crew dependent on a ship’s Covid-19 status and setting up an arrangement and timeline for vaccination of crew and port faculty.

“Coronavirus vaccination efforts will be basic in the protected resumption of traveler activities,” the CDC said.

CDC said the following phase of the CDC’s contingent sail request will incorporate recreated journeys to will permit crew and port work force to rehearse new Covid-19 operational methods with volunteers before cruising with travelers.

“CDC is focused on working with the cruise industry and seaport accomplices to continue cruising when it is protected to do as such, following the phased approach outlined” in October’s restrictive sail request,” the office said.

It didn’t determine a date for the resumption of cruise activities from U.S. ports regardless of calls from the industry for getting ready for a phased resumption by the start of July. The CDC said it will give extra direction before it will permit cruises to continue.

The Cruise Lines International Association, which addresses Carnival Corp, Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Cruises and others had begged CDC to give new direction, saying in a March 24 explanation the “absence of any activity by the CDC has viably restricted all sailings in the biggest cruise market on the planet.” It didn’t promptly remark on Friday.

The gathering had said the earlier restrictive sail request gave in October was “obsolete” and “doesn’t mirror the industry’s demonstrated progressions and achievement working in different pieces of the world, nor the coming of antibodies, and unreasonably treats cruises in an unexpected way. Cruise lines ought to be dealt with equivalent to other travel, tourism, hospitality, and amusement areas.”