Couple at sea for a month reveal shock at scale of coronavirus pandemic
by Frances Perraudin from Science | The Guardian on (#52GQW)
Elena Manighetti, from Lombardy, and Ryan Osborne told families not to contact them with bad news during Atlantic crossing
When Elena Manighetti and Ryan Osborne set off to cross the Atlantic ocean on their 11-metre sailing boat, the coronavirus crisis was just one of many stories in the news. The disease was largely confined to China and the World Health Organization was yet to declare its spread a global pandemic.
They left Lanzarote on the 3,000-nautical-mile journey on 28 February, with the latest they'd heard being that deaths from Covid-19 were slowing. On 25 March, as they reached the Caribbean island of Bequia, after 25 days of no internet access, they switched on their phones.
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