Trump was furious that cruise ship passengers with coronavirus were brought back to US

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was infuriated that 14 US citizens who had tested positive for coronavirus were permitted to return this week to the United States, said two senior administration officials.Officials at the State Department decided to bring back the citizens, who had been quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, after consulting with a senior official at the Department of Health and Human Services.

They then alerted the White House inter-agency task force on the coronavirus, which Mr Azar oversees. Word of Mr Trump's anger had already begun circulating among officials on Tuesday morning. The Washington Post first reported on it on Friday. There have been at least 634 infections and two deaths from the Diamond Princess, which Japanese officials kept in isolation for two weeks at a port in Yokohama.The cluster from the ship is the largest concentration of coronavirus cases outside China, warranting its own category in data compiled by the World Health Organisation.

The tests had been conducted two to three days earlier, but US officials, believing the timing of the results would be"unpredictable" because of the volume of testing being done in Japan, began the evacuation without having all results in hand. Dr Walters said on Monday that he and Dr Kadlec reviewed the possible options after learning of the test results.

On Friday, US officials said at least 34 people inside the United States have the virus - 18 of them from the Diamond Princess. All of the 34 cases have been linked to overseas travel.The State Department is closely monitoring US citizens on board another cruise ship in Cambodia, the Westerdam, as well as Americans who have disembarked and are in hotels in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

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