Canada announced it will not allow cruise ships to enter its waters for one year.

The sum of all fears related to the Alaska and Canadian cruise season in 2021 has been realized with the announcement by Canada's Minister of Tourism that cruises will ban cruise ships until February 28, 2022.

Canada had been banning cruise ships for a few months at a time, but this ban extends an entire year.

The last major cruise line to hold out has cancelled its April 2021 cruises.

MSC Cruises announced it has cancelled its U.S.-based sailings through to and including April 30, 2021.

The announcement was made on Wednesday and affects three cruise ships:

MSC Cruises took delivery of a brand new cruise ship.

The MSC Virtuosa becomes the 18th ship to join MSC's fleet and was delivered to the cruise line at Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint Nazaire, France.

MSC says Virtuosa will be the most environmentally-conscious at sea when she comes into service in April.  

The cruise industry adopted face masks for passengers as policy months ago, but the CDC now will require it going going forward.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order that goes into effect beginning February 1 that requires passengers wear masks on all forms of public transportation, including cruise ships.

It also requires people to wear masks in transportation hubs.

Disney Cruise Line announced it has cancelled all of its April 2021 cruises, as well as some May 2021 sailings.

Select sailings onboard the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder in May have been cancelled.

The new round of cancellations are a result of needing time to prepare to meet the guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The full statement by Disney reads as follows:

All the crew members on Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) and Regent Seven Seas cruise lines will have its crew members vaccinated for COVID-19.

While the decision to require guests to be vaccinated continues, crew members will be completely vaccinated.

A spokesperson for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. confirmed that the policy change.

How limited will the capacity of cruise ships when they restart? Celebrity Cruises shared insight into their plan.

During a webinar with travel agents, Celebrity Cruises Senior Vice President of Sales, Trade Support & Service Dondra Ritzenthaler answered a question about the plans for limiting capacity of cruises and gave insight into the cruise line's plans.

Celebrity's plan right now is to start off with ships at 50 or 60 percent capacity, and steadily increase occupancy as time progresses.

Less than a week after equity firm Sycamore Partners announced it would buy Azamara, they have announced they bought another cruise ship.

Azamara has purchased Pacific Princess from Princess Cruises.

Princess Cruises announced it would sell Pacific Princess, but declined to say who the buyer was.

While not a new set of fleetwide cancellations, Carnival is tapping the brakes some more on its ships returning to service.

Carnival Cruise Line announced on Monday new plans for additional ship deployments related to its phased approach to cruises restarting in 2021.

The cruise line outlined a series of ship-specific cruise cancellations and movements including: