Third death from cruise ship in Japan, new cases raise quarantine doubts

TOKYO: A third person from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship quarantined off Japan has died, the health ministry said Sunday, as new infections among former passengers emerged.

A Japanese man in his 80s passed away from pneumonia after being taken off the ship, the health ministry said Sunday.Nearly 1,000 passengers were allowed to leave the ship this week after testing negative, but there are now serious concerns about their status. “There has been a judgement that those who disembarked after testing negative had no problem, but it has now become clear that those people can turn positive,” Tochigi governor Tomokazu Fukuda told reporters, urging “additional measures” to contain the spread.

In addition to those allowed off the boat after testing negative, 100 former passengers who had been in close contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus have disembarked for quarantine on land. Kato has defended Japan’s on-board quarantine, telling a TV programme Saturday there was no medical facility large enough to admit more than 3,000 people at once.

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