14 Americans who got the coronavirus from a quarantined cruise ship were flown home in an 'isolation box'

Travelers arrive to LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal wearing medical masks for protection against the novel coronavirus outbreak on February 2, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. The United States has declared a public health emergency and will implement strict travel restrictions later today. Foreign nationals who have been in China in the last two weeks and are not immediate family members of U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be barred from entering the U.S. Meanwhile, about 195 U.

The State Department said that everyone would be quarantined for a further two weeks in the US, and that anyone on the plane who started to show symptoms would be isolated. The passengers were among more than 300 US citizens on the Diamond Princess, which had been quarantined off the coast of Japan for more than 10 daysThey tested positive after they left the ship and as they were traveling to their plane home, the US State Department and Department of Health and Human Services"During the evacuation process, after passengers had disembarked the ship and initiated transport to the airport, U.S.

When the test results were discovered, the 14 passengers were moved to a"specialised containment area on the evacuation aircraft to isolate them." The State Department, after consulting with experts, allowed them to fly while isolated from other passengers.

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