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The stricken Grand Princess cruise ship is headed to the Port of Oakland on Monday, having received permission from Gov. Gavin Newsom to dock there and for its thousands of passengers and crew to disembark.

The 938 passengers who are California residents will be transferred to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield or Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego for a mandatory 14-day quarantine and medical monitoring for signs of coronavirus infection, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS did not say whether they will be tested, but federal officials previously had said all passengers on the boat would be tested.

Residents of other states will be sent to Joint Base San Antonio Lackland in Texas or Dobbins Air Force Base in Georgia for their quarantines.

Councilman Larry Reid said he was told by an official at the Port of Oakland that the cruise ship would dock at a terminal in the Outer Harbor that is no longer in operation.

The vessel is likely to arrive Monday, according to a Saturday night tweet from Princess Cruises. The ship originally planned to dock Sunday, but the “logistics plan went into further review by the state and federal authorities,” and the ship will now berth Monday, with the exact time to be determined.

Of the 3,535 passengers aboard the Grand Princess, 21 people have tested positive for the coronavirus. Of those, 19 are crew members and two are passengers.

But only 45 passengers were tested. That means the ship’s other 3,490 passengers still need testing – a daunting task.

Passengers who require acute medical treatment and hospitalization will be transported to health care facilities in California. They will leave the ship first, according to Princess Cruises spokesperson Negin Kamali.

Plans for the several hundred international passengers have not yet been finalized. The Department of State is working with the estimated 53 home countries of these passengers to arrange for their repatriations.

Reid expressed concern that state and federal officials had decided that Oakland, not San Francisco, would be the best location to receive the Grand Princess passengers and crew.

“San Francisco has the facilities in place, why are they offloading the passengers in the city of Oakland?” Reid asked.

But former Oakland councilman Abel Guillen said the terminal in the port’s Outer Harbor made sense for the disembarkation because of its isolated location.

“It’s a public health emergency, and requires all of us to to take precautions necessary to protect the public,” Guillen said. This terminal “as a point for logistics and to disembark seems ideal because it is away from the masses and chances for community contamination seem lower.”

Mayor Libby Schaaf did not return calls, emails or texts, seeking comment Saturday night. Port of Oakland officials referred inquiries to the state Office of Emergency Services.

Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan urged the state to quickly fund installation of sanitation stations and other protections for community members who are working with the evacuated passengers.

“What actions will the state take to support our local community dealing with the outbreak — specifically, will they fund hand-washing stations and other sanitation efforts, including the homeless?” she said. “We must not repeat prior errors of having unprotected staff work with evacuees and then go into the community.”

Oakland city officials were invited to participate in a conference call Saturday night, Reid said. While Reid said he learned too late about the conference call to join in, he was separately told by a port official that the ship would dock at the Outer Harbor terminal.

The federal government also is setting up a command center at the Marriott Convention Center and flying in extra U.S. Marshals to help with the operation, Reid said. From there, passengers and crew will board shuttle buses to be taken to their next destinations.

Before news came that the Grand Princess had been given permission to dock in Oakland, the passengers had endured another day of limbo, circling in the Pacific Ocean, several miles off the coast of San Mateo County.

“Just floating around waiting,” passenger Kristian Riese, 47, said in a message to this news organization. He is on the cruise with his girlfriend and elderly parents. “At least the sun is out and we have a balcony.”

Riese confirmed in a WhatApp message to this news organization that passengers were told Saturday evening that they would finally get off the ship. “And that Cali residents will be taken to a Cali quarantine and out of staters will go somewhere else that is unknown to us,” Riese wrote. “At least they are planning to get us off this thing and getting us separated from the known cases”

The vast majority of coronavirus cases are minor, involving mere cold-like symptoms to mild pneumonia. But the illness can be catastrophic for five percent of patients, particularly the elderly.

Concerned about contagion — and seeking to avoid a repeat of last month’s disastrous Diamond Princess cruise, where six people died and 705 were infected after inadequate protocols – the passengers have been isolated in their cabins, with room service and television.

The Grand Princess is returning from Hawaii. It cancelled its planned final stop to Ensenada, Mexico, after officials got word that a passenger on its previous leg – a 71-year-old Placer County man with underlying health problems – had died of the illness.

That passenger wasn’t aware of his infection and didn’t show symptoms until after boarding, said Dr. Grant Tarling, Princess Cruises’ chief medical officer, at a Saturday press briefing.

“We believe his illness was acquired in California before he joined the ship,” suggesting community exposure, Tarling said. This is disputed by Placer County health officials, who say he was likely exposed on the trip.

The outbreak spread after this passenger unknowingly infected two crew members who him served meals, according to Tarling.

Now illnesses in a dozen people — four in Placer County, two in Contra Costa County, two in Sonoma County and one each in Santa Cruz, Ventura, Madera and Alameda counties – are linked to that previous leg of the cruise.

When Princess Cruises was still awaiting word about if and when the ship could get to land, Princess Cruises President Jan Schwartz said in a conference call with reporters that federal, state and local authorities should agree on a plan “that prioritizes the health and welfare of all onboard Grand Princess and their home communities.”

In a message to passengers Saturday afternoon, the vessel’s captain said that corporate officials from the cruise line were “urging the government to help us get our guests safely ashore as quickly as possible.”

The only recent activity of note on the ship came late Friday night, when the U.S. Coast Guard delivered a load of supplies by helicopter to the ship. The Coast Guard also had to evacuate a sick passenger from the vessel who had fallen “critically ill,” officials said Saturday, though they stressed that the person needed medical attention for an ailment unrelated to COVID-19.

Staff writers David DeBolt and Julia Prodis Sulek contributed to this report.