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Crew member of Holland American cruise ship with coronavirus cases dies in Florida

Four people who were aboard the Zaandam cruise ship have now died.
Zaandam cruise chip, credit: Holland America

MIAMI — A crew member who was hospitalized after two ill-fated cruise ships docked in Florida with coronavirus cases has died. 

A medical examiner said Thursday that the 50-year-old Indonesian man tested positive for COVID-19. The man's death means four people aboard the Zaandam cruise ship have now died.

A Holland America Line spokesman says the man was taken to a Florida hospital the day the Zaandam and a sister ship docked in Fort Lauderdale after spending two weeks at sea rejected by South American ports. 

Four passengers had died before the ships arrived on April 2, and three of those men tested positive for COVID-19. 

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