New Delhi (NVI): Fourteen Americans, who were among 300 evacuated US passengers from a cruise ship in Japan, were tested positive for novel coronavirus, the US State Department said today.
More than 300 US citizens and family members were evacuated by a plane from a quarantined ship in Japan, even as the 14 confirmed cases were placed in segregated areas of a chartered flight.
Diamond Princess, the Japanese cruise has been docked off in Yokohama for more than 10 days now.
The US government arranged the jet to evacuate American passengers stuck on the ship, and more than 300 people boarded the plane.
However, those US citizens, who had already been tested positive for coronavirus were not allowed to board the evacuation charters.
Meanwhile, China’s National Health Commission has announced that the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China has reached 1,770 today, up by 105 from the previous day.
