Two former passengers who tested positive for coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship have died, Japanese authorities said, as fears mount for those who have left the ship after testing negative for the virus.
The huge vessel moored in Yokohama near Tokyo is the biggest coronavirus cluster outside the Chinese city of Wuhan, which is at the centre of the outbreak, with 621 positive cases confirmed among the passengers and crew.Trapped at home: Irishman's virus lockdown experience Yesterday, 443 passengers disembarked after testing negative for the COVID-19 virus and not showing symptoms during a 14-day quarantine period. The removal of all passengers was expected to take at least three days.
Passengers were confined to cabins except for brief trips on deck wearing masks and gloves, when they were told to keep their distance from others. The report concluded that: "Quarantine intervention was effective in reducing transmission among passengers.""Due to the nature of the ship, individual isolation of all those aboard was not possible. Sharing of cabins was necessary, and some crew had to continue to perform essential duties for the functioning of the vessel."
A cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred on a sect in the South Korean city of Daegu leaped to 39 cases, with its mayor advising residents to stay indoors as the country's total spiked for the second successive day. So far 37 other members of the sect have been confirmed as infected, and the woman is also believed to have contaminated another person at a hospital.
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