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A small boat is pictured next to the Diamond Princess cruise ship with over 3,000 people as it sits anchored in quarantine off the port of Yokohama on February 4. Stringer/Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images
There are now two cruise ships under quarantine at sea, with thousands on board, after former passengers were confirmed to have the coronavirus.are on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, currently sitting in Yokohama Bay, south of Tokyo. Of those, 428 passengers are American.The passenger with the virus was an 80-year-old man from Hong Kong.
are being conducted, and people on board cannot leave without the Hong Kong Health Department’s permission.On a previous voyage, the ship had sailed from Nansha, China to Vietnam and back. Three passengers on board were later confirmed to be infected; all passengers disembarked on January 24 in China and Hong Kong. The ship’s crew stayed on for the next trip, which docked and departed from Kaohsiung, Taiwan on February 4.
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