Bev and John Kable’s bucket list cruise to the Antarctic didn’t go the way they planned, but it could have been much worse.
Key points:
- The latest research suggests about 15 per cent of people with COVID-19 will never develop symptoms
- The Australian research team also found people without symptoms are less likely to spread the illness
- Another study found staying more than a metre from an infected individual reduces the transmission risk to 3 per cent
The Sydney grandparents’ sightseeing was cut short and the ship stranded off the coast of Uruguay after a crew member became unwell in March.
Everyone on board was tested for coronavirus, including the couple.
John Kable was slightly concerned as he was in his late 70s, a high-risk age group.
“I’ve always had a little bit of a weak chest but I didn’t have any symptoms, so I guess I wasn’t overly worried,” he said.
They said they both felt perfectly healthy, so the couple was stunned to learn they both had COVID-19.
“I thought, how can that be?” Mrs Kable said.
“We hadn’t had a thing wrong with us, nothing.”
Passengers on the ship we