The food is excellent, both in the dining room and in the other venues. No special vegan menu, but they always have a vegan option. Lasagna has meat. There were 950 crew members, ship was pretty much full.
I didn't notice many covid people on this trip, a few people wore masks, most not ..I didn't, just stay away from the meat packing places like the Lido pool.
It's a beginning, but a lot more needs to be changed to start making money again, especially with ports closing to large ships and now the Norwegian Fjords are starting to close too.
I don't know exactly were the tenders are dropping you off, but right at Mazzaro beach there's a cable car that takes you to downtown Taormina, for about10 euros' roundtrip.