Forty-four more people on Japan cruise ship have COVID-19, according to a Japanese health minister.
Another 44 people onboard a Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan’s coast have tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus, according to a Japanese health minister.
This, as the confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus, named COVID-19, now have 218 people on the Diamond Princess cruise ship so far.
According to Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato, 44 out of 221 new test results were found positive, with 43 were passengers and one member from the ship’s crew. He also said that the authorities wanted to move elderly people off the ship if they tested negative for the COVID-19, offering to put them in government-designated lodging rooms.
Kato added that five people were “in a serious condition”, with four of them were tested positive for the COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) previously confirmed in a tweet that newly diagnosed cases of the COVID-19 should not extend the length of the quarantine as the quarantine period of the Diamond Princess “will come to an end on February 19.”
WHO added that the quarantine period will be extended beyond February 19 “as appropriate only for close contacts of newly confirmed cases”, thus, people on board the cruise ship “need to remain in quarantine for 14 days from the last contact with a confirmed case.”
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