CORONAVIRUS | Hong Kong gov't to send aircraft for extraction of its citizens aboard quarantined cruise ship in Japan.
| The Hong Kong government will send aircraft to Japan to bring back passengers from the quarantined cruise shipIn a statement late on Saturday, the Security Bureau said chartered flights would return Hong Kong residents to the city for free once Japanese authorities had confirmed the plan.
The cruise ship, owned by Carnival Corp and carrying some 3,700 passengers and crew, has been quarantined in Yokohama since Feb 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it travelled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has called on residents to stay indoors as much as possible to curb the risk of a possible community outbreak in the global financial centre where, shopping malls, restaurants and cafes are almost deserted.
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