Passengers began disembarking on Wednesday from the virus-hit Diamond Princess c...
Passengers look out from the cruise ship Diamond Princess at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-hoon
TOKYO - Passengers began disembarking on Wednesday from the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship after spending two weeks in quarantine off Yokohama, near Tokyo, public broadcaster NHK said. Around 500 people were expected to disembark on Wednesday with the entire process to be completed by Friday, NHK reported.Reporting by Chris Gallagher and Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman
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