Health workers measure the temperature of a passenger disembarking from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Daikoku pier cruise terminal in Yokohama, Japan, on February 21 2020. AFP/PHILIP FONG
More than 600 aboard the cruise liner, quarantined off Yokohama since arriving on February 3 carrying 3,700 people, have been infected with the virus. Two of them — both Japanese and in their 80s — died on Thursday, and about 100 passengers will be transferred ashore in the coming days for further quarantine because they were in close quarters with infected travelers.
At a briefing on Friday, chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga faced questions about why one of the liner passengers who died — an 84-year-old woman — was not tested or transferred to a hospital until a week after she developed a fever.
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