Americans will be removed from a cruise ship quarantined off Japan and flown home, the US embassy said Saturday Coronavirus JapanCruise America China
At least 285 people on the Diamond Princess have contracted the illness but hundreds of passengers and crew have not yet been tested as they wait in a quarantine that was scheduled to end February 19.
A chartered flight will arrive in Japan on Sunday, but it was not immediately clear when it would leave. The letter said the flight will land at Travis Air Force Base in California, with some passengers continuing to a second air base in Texas. “Should you choose not to return on this charter flight, you will be unable to return to the United States for a period of time,” it warned.
“The U.S. Government… wants to take us off without testing, fly us back to the U.S. with a bunch of other untested people, and then stick us in 2 more weeks of quarantine? How does that make any sense at all?”There were more than 3,700 people on the ship when it arrived off the Japanese coast in early February. It was placed into quarantine after a passenger who got off the boat in Hong Kong tested positive for the newly named COVID-19.
Those who had close contact with anyone who tested positive would have to restart their quarantine from the date of their last close contact, he added.
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