Japan’s TBS TV reported that the outbreak of the cruise ship “Diamond Princess” had about 60 people on the ship who tested positive for the virus, which drastically increased the number of confirmed diagnoses on board to more than 130, while more than 150 people were believed to be infected nationwide. Subsequently, the shipping company issued a statement confirming that 66 more people were infected with Wuhan pneumonia, of which 45 were Japanese, 11 Americans, 4 Australians, 3 Filipinos, and one each from Canada and Ukraine. As the number of infections on board continued to expand, Japan ’s Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Kato said that he was studying to wait for the end of the observation period for shipowners, and when disembarking the ship, he asked all shipowners to undergo virus inspection, and he was not allowed to disembark until all results were available. Among them, the quarantine Hong Kong people stopped taking medicine for 4 days, which caused high blood pressure or required hospitalization.
Japan ’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism revealed on the 10th that 13 of the 14 foreign cruise ships originally scheduled to dock in Japan in February were suspended. The remaining one, “Ocean Dream”, is scheduled to dock at Yokohama Port on the 15th and Kobe Port on the 16th. Earlier, some doctors reminded cruise ships that they are susceptible to cross-infection, because the cruise ship ’s environment is relatively narrow, and the air circulation is poor, and cross-infection is very easy to occur in densely crowded places, such as restaurants, swimming pools, toilets and entertainment facilities The situation is not optimistic.
The owner of the Diamond Princess US company today decided that passengers who were unable to disembark at the port of Yokohama due to the new coronavirus pneumonia will be refunded in full, including the boarding fee.