Americans in Japan to trade one quarantine for another

A bus leaves the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship at a port Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. The U.S. says Americans aboard a quarantined ship will be flown back home on a chartered flight Sunday, but that they will face another two-week quarantine.

About 380 Americans are on the cruise ship. The Japanese defense ministry said around 300 of them were preparing Sunday night to leave on buses to take them to Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The U.S. State Department has arranged for charter flights to fly the Americans back to the United States. Canada, Hong Kong and Italy said they were planning similar flights of passengers.

"We are glad to be going home,” Cheryl Molesky told NHK TV in Japan. “It’s just a little bit disappointing that we’ll have to go through quarantine again, and we will probably not be as comfortable as the Diamond Princess, possibly.”Molesky also said she was getting concerned about the rising number of patients on the ship.

Asked how they felt about the additional 14-day quarantine in the United States, Cheryl Molesky sighed, and her husband said, “If we have to go through that, we will go through that.”

They stayed longer then I would have quarantine me In America not a filthy ship

They shouldn’t be allowed back in USA 🇺🇸

At this point I’m seriously wondering if us officials are starting to think about closing down the borders to all international traffic. 🤔 corronavirus

Hope they don't whisk back the virus with them

And still whining about having a stateside quarantine for 14 days - they are luck they are still not there

So we're going to expose flight crews to the virus? In what way is this better?

Guess what I got on holiday?

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