BREAKING UPDATE 2: 10 MORE TEST POSITIVE, TOTAL NOW 20 | Japan quarantines 3,500 on cruise ship over nCoV

Japan has quarantined a cruise ship carrying 3,500 people and was testing passengers for the new coronavirus on Tuesday after a passenger who departed in Hong Kong tested positive for the virus.

Television footage showed images of several quarantine officers entering the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the port of Yokohama on Monday evening to check the health of all 2,500 passengers and 1,000 crew members.

A woman in her twenties who was sailing with her mother on the ship told private broadcaster TBS on Tuesday that all passengers "were asked to stay in their rooms to wait for virus tests".

She said they had been waiting inside their room since Monday and had no word of when they would be tested as of early Tuesday.

The cruise ship has already been quarantined once, on Saturday at a port in Naha in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

But a second quarantine was organised after the man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to be infected.

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SO THIS SHIP WAS ALREADY QUARANTINED ONCE



UPDATE 2: 2/5
10 MORE TEST POSITIVE
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Nearly two dozen passengers on a Diamond Princess Cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Yokohama Port in Japan have now tested positive for coronavirus and are being hospitalized.

Public Relations Director Negin Kamali confirmed to USA TODAY Wednesday that 10 additional passengers tested positive for the virus during the second phase of health screenings, bringing the total number of people from the ship with coronavirus to 20.

UPDATE: 2/4
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More than 10 cruise ship passengers are positive

A Hong Kong man on a cruise ship has been infected with the new coronavirus, and several passengers have reported positive reactions to the new coronavirus. Is from more than 10 people.

The Japan Coast Guard has begun work to transport those who have tested positive.

Persons who have a positive response will be transported from a cruise ship to the Yokohama Coast Guard on a patrol boat of the Japan Coast Guard, and then transported to a hospital. An ambulance is already waiting at the Yokohama Coast Guard.

Last Edited by PirateMonkey on 02/05/2020 10:40 PM