Hundreds of relieved passengers disembarked Wednesday from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan after being given the all-clear, but health officials said 79 new cases had been detected.
With 621 positive cases, the Diamond Princess is easily the biggest cluster of infected people outside China, and Japan has faced mounting criticism for its quarantine arrangements as passengers disperse across the world.Those newly diagnosed with the virus will be taken off the ship to hospital, and after being treated will have to undergo another quarantine.
A fleet of yellow-dotted city buses, plus a dozen or so taxis, whisked away from the passengers, many of whom dragged their luggage behind them and waved to former ship-mates on balconies as they disembarked. Hundreds of more cases have been reported in two dozen countries, including 20 in South Korea, a two-thirds rise, with a cluster of at least 16 around the southern city of Daegu.For the 500 passengers leaving the Diamond Princess after testing negative, a difficult 14-day quarantine period has come to an end after their dream cruise turned into a nightmare of fear and boredom, confined in many cases too small windowless cabins.
Michael Ryan, head of the World Health Organization’s emergencies programme, said the outbreak was “very serious” and could grow, but stressed that outside China’s Hubei, it was “affecting a very, very tiny, tiny proportion of people”.
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