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Coronavirus: Japan braces for hundreds more cases as Hubei lockdown continues @ 2020-02-17T16: Back Hot News
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WHEN THE WESTERDAM SET SAIL FROM HONG KONG ON FEB. 1 FOR A 14-DAY CRUISE, THE HOLLAND AMERICA LINE CRUISE SHIP WAS CARRYING 1,455 PASSENGERS AND 802 CREW MEMBERS.
FOURTEEN PASSENGERS, WHO WERE BELIEVED TO BE WELL BEFORE THEY WERE EVACUATED FROM A CRUISE SHIP IN JAPAN ON MONDAY, WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED WHILE BOARDING A CHARTER PLANE TO THE UNITED STATES.
DESIGNED TO CARRY JUST 126 PASSENGERS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENDURANCE WILL BE TINY COMPARED TO THE GIANT VESSELS OPERATED BY THE LIKES OF ROYAL CARIBBEAN AND CARNIVAL. IT ALSO WON’T BE A TRADITIONAL CRUISE SHIP OF THE TYPE MOST CRUISERS KNOW. IT WILL BE AN “EXPEDITION” SHIP — A TYPE OF CRUISE VESSEL SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO TRAVEL TO REMOTE, HARD-TO-REACH PLACES.
"THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT THE DEGREE OF TRANSMISSIBILITY ON THAT CRUISE SHIP IS ESSENTIALLY AKIN TO BEING IN A HOT SPOT," FAUCI ADDED. "A LOT OF TRANSMISSIBILITY ON THAT CRUISE SHIP."
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - AN AMERICAN PASSENGER FROM A CRUISE SHIP DOCKED IN CAMBODIA HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE NEW CORONAVIRUS A SECOND TIME IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA SAID ON SUNDAY, AFTER THE CRUISE OPERATOR SOUGHT FURTHER TESTS.
BEAUBIEN: FOR THE MOST PART, IT"S - WE"RE NOT SEEING, YOU KNOW, NEW CLUSTERS ALL OVER THE PLACE. HOWEVER, THERE IS GREAT CONCERN ABOUT ANOTHER CRUISE SHIP. IT WAS THE WESTERDAM. THAT CRUISE SHIP, THERE HAD BEEN RUMORS THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE WITH CORONAVIRUS ON IT. THAT SHIP WAS DENIED ENTRY IN FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES BEFORE IT WAS FINALLY ABLE TO DOCK IN CAMBODIA.
THE FIRST OF TWO PLANES CARRYING HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS FROM A CRUISE SHIP UNDER QUARANTINE IN THE JAPANESE PORT OF YOKOHAMA ARRIVED IN THE U.S. LATE SUNDAY, CALIFORNIA TIME, EARLY MONDAY, EASTERN TIME. THE OTHER WAS DUE SHORTLY. CANADA, AUSTRALIA, HONG KONG AND ITALY WERE PLANNING SIMILAR FLIGHTS.
CRUISE COMPANIES WORK TO MINIMIZE THE RISK OF ILLNESS BY MAINTAINING CLEANLINESS AND MONITORING HEALTH ON BOARD THEIR SHIPS. IN RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK, CARNIVAL—THE PARENT COMPANY OF PRINCESS CRUISES—HAS INTRODUCED EXPANDED PROTOCOLS, INCLUDING 「ENHANCED ONBOARD SANITATION MEASURES WITH NON-TOXIC MATERIALS」 AND 「PRE-BOARDING MEDICAL EVALUATIONS, AS NEEDED.」 ON ITS WEBSITE, ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES TOUTS ITS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM, SUCH AS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INSPECTIONS, FREQUENT WATER SYSTEMS TESTING, AND STRICT FOOD HANDLING RULES.
IT"S THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES: YOU"RE TRAPPED ON A SHIP WHERE A MYSTERIOUS VIRUS IS SWIFTLY INFECTING THOSE ONBOARD. BUT THIS IS REAL LIFE: OVER 3,500 PEOPLE REMAIN QUARANTINED ABOARD THE CRUISE SHIP DIAMOND PRINCESS, WHICH IS DOCKED OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN, AFTER PASSENGERS TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE NEW CORONAVIRUS.
THE RISKS TO ALL ABOARD WERE REINFORCED ON MONDAY AS JAPAN』S HEALTH MINISTRY SAID THAT AN ADDITIONAL 65 PEOPLE HAD TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS, NEARLY DOUBLING THE TOTAL TO 135. ACCORDING TO PRINCESS CRUISES, WHICH OPERATES THE SHIP, AT LEAST 20 OF THEM ARE AMERICAN. THE SHIP ALREADY HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS CASES OUTSIDE THE EPICENTER IN CHINA, WHERE MORE THAN 40,000 HAVE BEEN INFECTED.
380 AMERICAN PASSENGERS QUARANTINED ABOARD THE DIAMOND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP IN JAPAN, WHERE SCORES OF PEOPLE HAD TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, THE NEW NAME FOR THE DISEASE, ARE TO BE EVACUATED. DAVID GURA SPEAKS TO SHAN LI, A BEIJING BASED REPORTER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL UNDER QUARANTINE IN CALIFORNIA, AND EPIDEMIOLOGIST IAN LIPKIN, WHO IS IN SELF QUARANTINE AFTER TRAVELING TO CHINA TO STUDY THE DISEASE.
GREECE’S HEALTH MINISTER VASSILIS KIKILIAS SAID ON SUNDAY THAT GREECE WILL SOON EVACUATE THE TWO GREEK NATIONALS WHO ARE ON BOARD OF THE ”DIAMOND PRINCESS” CRUISE SHIP, WHICH HAS BEEN QUARANTINED BY THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CASES.

 

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