“You sit out on the balcony and you hear people coughing all the way along.”
With 174 confirmed cases, the ship that arrived with over 3,700 passengers and crew has become the largest single cluster of the newly named COVID-19 virus outside its origin in China, where it has killed more than 1,100.
He apologised for the “periodic service disruptions” to the internet, adding: “Diamond Princess has more bandwidth than any ship in the world, and at the same time, more mobile devices than ever before connected on a ship.” Kato also revealed there were four people in hospital in serious condition, either on a ventilator or in intensive care.
When the boat arrived off Japan, authorities initially tested nearly 300 people of the 3,711 aboard for the virus, gradually evacuating dozens who were infected to local medical facilities. The ship is expected to remain in quarantine until February 19 — two weeks days after the isolation period began. Officials do not expect new cases to affect this schedule.
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