Buses with US passengers on board arrive at the Haneda Airport, in Tokyo after disembarking in Yokohama from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images
The US government arranged the jet to evacuate American passengers stuck on the ship, and more than 300 people boarded the plane, which left Japan yesterday. Americans who had already tested positive for coronavirusDuring the evacuation process, after passengers had disembarked the ship and initiated transport to the airport, US officials received notice that 14 passengers, who had been tested 2-3 days earlier, had tested positive for COVID-19.
During the flights, these individuals will continue to be isolated from the other passengers. These flights departed Japan at approximately 4:30 PM Eastern time on February 16 and will arrive in the United States later this morning.
This is a disaster brought by MHLW politicians who don’t admit their failure considering only their own protection. JapanNeedsCDC Woman tests positive after leaving cruise ship | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
That is truly sad, my prayers are with them.
Dept of State overrode CDC determination NOT to do this. SecPompeo . .
How many times do these medical experts have to see this pattern before they figure it out: 1. It’s airborne 2. The tests aren’t reliable as the incubation and contagious periods aren’t known for certain
MikiTakabayashi
Diamond Princess is COVID-19 mill. How I got in the ship and was removed... YouTube: Diamond Princess has completely inadequate infection control, and there is no professional ID person in charge.
How about people they may have come in contact with ?
ecodias
richinza
A Japanese doctor was threatened by the Ministry of Health for pointing out that the bureaucrats were not doing quarantine on Diamond Princess. He bravely confessed the horrible situation in the ship after being kicked out. Please share this.
Oh! So what is this virus? coronavirus
This is one of the worst news. Do not let them meet new healthy people. Virus can stay as long as 40 days asymptotic, some forever asymptotic but pass on to others. Worst decision. Do not let healthy ones go! Even healthy ones must quarantine a month!
This is sick. Stop playing with it and douse it with silver!
haymanve Gee, I wonder why other countries didn’t wanna being home theirs..
Sounds like almost everyone on board is contagious
Then don’t bring them to the state’s
I wonder how good their health insurance is...
I thought the Diamond Princess was a burlesque saloon just outside of Carson City
Absolutely insane to bring a life ending disease back into the country willingly. Just complete stupidity.
But on a positive note, only 437 of the 472 aboard have buffet diarrhea 😃
Smh I knew it.....epic fail
This is a mess.
HAVE THEY BEEN QUARANTINED?
They should have stayed on the g-d boat.
Quarantine supposed to be regulated by rules!? Who made the mistake? Who’s responsible?
We should probably set them free in the USA so we can get this zombie apocalypse going.
Quick, get them to Mar-A-Lago for quarantine!
Maybe Donald Trump should have a meeting with them the second they hit American soil.
deb_ayy
I thought the plan was that if anyone tested positive, they stayed in Japan. Now, hasn’t the entire plane including the crew been exposed
Then why didn’t they stay put?
What did the government expect to happen? Did they really think not a single person they were “saving” was going to get the virus just because they swoop in and relocate them
Were not all tested before being allowed to depart?
Guys, guys! Did you watch “The Hot Zone” already? NOW, just imagine what will happen if the idiocy and the human factor remained at the same level, and the level of luck decreased.
FIRE DON LEMON!!!
Aren’t these the same group that was complaining about being abandoned
Cool and will be free to walk around and infect people....
'Headline: Douchey cruisers complain; pre-flight instructions did not include iron lung demonstration.'
They should have been extricated much sooner. It's dumb to quarantine ordinary people side by side with people who have already been infected.
Great why didn’t u test them before ?
Necessary to clarify whether the virus was already infected before isolation. There was heavy contact at dance hall and a buffet was served on the ship. It should be remembered the DP and Westerdam with many US passengers are US company, and US was refusing to accept them in Guam
Wait for April, that will be the Cure
Whatttt!!!!!!
So the us government is importing the virus now on purpose
WTF
Hmm this will get much coverage I hope and I pray for their sake and our nation they treat this situation with the utmost care!!
What is happening?
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And they are on a plane with +150 others who will now soon also test positive. Good job on that quarantine. They were safer on the cruise ship
And so it begins...
What the hell happening to our world even animals r angry with us humans now
Yeah, let's bring the virus to the US. Morons.
They want this virus in America to boost their funding. And if you have a virus that you don’t know how it’s spread, why would you want to possibly infect others because you want to just come home? It’s like that hooker spreading a STD just because....
Then stop acting like Lemings and do something about it...Colloidal Silver Water kills any known virus,dam pharmaceutical boys cover it up as you can’t patent water or a precious metal = no profit.Does human life have value🤔
They should go and hug the president in appreciation for sending a plane... kiss him too...
Traepoint Is that what the creepy ass box inside is for?
2-3 days ago they were fine? This disease is crazy.
They did this to let it loose here in the US....over there was a test to see how it would work...they know now and brought it here...we are fuked now...😡🤬🤯😡🤯🤬eyes wide shut if you really believe this shit is contained....
How is the US going to sanitize this plane?
Ummm
And we are forgetting about the 200 people that died of the common flu just just month in the U.S. and the 450 people that died of the common flu in China. But, this story just sound better.
it seems nobody thinks about the crew.
At cruise ship they are not mixed like a can of sardines....now they are in a can of sardines texas standard...so yep lucky thosed who have stayed.
You don’t know how fortunate you are to have a POTUS who clearly cares for his Country and it’s citizens, UNLIKE the one we have in Canada, where we are in serious trouble.....Count your blessings, and Godspeed to those people...🇺🇸🇨🇦 TrudeauWorstPM TrudeauHasGotToGo
What do they all do when they arrive at the base and need to unpack their luggage that has been sitting in the aeroplane hold with the luggage of the infected?
Wow. Now all those that traveled in the same plane with them and weren't infected, exposed themselves to the virus by flying back.
ChibiJenHen bish
Almost like we should have left them in quarantine until the tests came back...
RIP Pilots and plane staff
You guys ever seen the movie Final Destination?
Current view of evacuation flight inbound for Lackland AFB flightradar24
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Well....these Christians've got their backs
maybe if they did this
That's an oopsie!
Government must quarantine they all who's in that plane for 14 days or more.
🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bruh
producerTJeski 🚨?
Shocking, this cruise 🚢 has been the single biggest COVIDー19 virus 🦠 cluster outside Wuhan - China 🇨🇳 it seems ChinaVirus
USA planned well, there’s a specialized negative pressure vault on the plane to transport the patients back safely. They’re Americans, they belong here and best wishes on speedy recovery. Welcome home, glad you’re off the boat.
Is that such a good idea ?
Pools closed
Damn! We need to find the handle on this! ASAP!
So actually all passengers got the disease. So how come china is saying only 70.000 people affected from corona virus out of 1.5 billion. That's impossible. This ship is prove that may be millions affected in China and government is not saying right numbers to the world.
shouldve left them there!
This is serious, hope its properly contained
Would this be a good time for the handshakers to stop shaking hands?
Passengers were prompted to RSVP to the US Embassy .
Now what? Welcome back with open arms After all, this is their country.
This CoronaVirus is airborne..
That's ok. When April comes it will kill the virus.
Whew. I was afraid it wasn't spreading fast enough. Chartered flights should help speed this up.
40 Anericans on cruise ship infected with COVID - 19
i wish they will overcome that virus.
A cruise to remember!
Holy fuck just nuke the world and end it
Sad. They need our prayers and great medical care.
Turn the plane around
Probably because they were forced to stay on the boat that was a cesspool for it...
Nice
Great bring them here smart
Sick
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