CORONAVIRUS | Plans also underway to evacuate US citizens on the Diamond Princess that has been quarantined in a Japanese port for nearly two weeks.
in a rare message to a country that is one of China’s closest allies and has often been at odds with Washington., worried its passengers could be carrying the coronavirus despite it having no known cases before Cambodia’s authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, agreed the passengers could disembark there.
The passengers were tested regularly on the ship and Cambodia also tested 20 once it docked. None were found to have the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 people, the vast majority in China.
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