TOKYO - As the first passengers cleared of the coronavirus began disembarking the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Yokohama on Wednesday , experts piled in on the Japanese government's handling as a bureaucratic bungle that led to the huge surge in cases on the ship.
He said in a widely-shared Youtube video on Tuesday night that the Diamond Princess had effectively become a"Covid-19 mill". Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told the Diet, Japan's Parliament , in response to the video:"We address issues on the same day if they are raised by specialist physicians who are members of the infection prevention team after they check the ship."
"Transmission towards the end of the quarantine period, which is scheduled to end for most passengers on Feb 19, appears to have occurred mostly among crew or within passenger cabins," it added. But they are not being tested again before they leave the ship - as government officials say the risk is"extremely low" of their being infected after the quarantine period began.
This led renowned Japanese neuroscientist Kenichiro Mogi to comment on Twitter:"It's a pandemic on board because we don't do what we need to do in response and data collection."
Have someone read this and think. Think hard, whether the 'specialist' himself, and what he says is credible.
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