Police officers ride next to a recently landed plane carrying passengers who have been under quarantine on the Diamond Princess, at RAF Boscombe Down in Amesbury, Britain, February 22, 2020. — AFP pic
They landed at a defence ministry airfield in southwestern England on a government-chartered plane from Tokyo and were being taken straight to quarantine facilities. More than 620 passengers on board have been infected with the coronavirus, the most outside mainland China.
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