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Japan has quarantined a cruise ship carrying 3,711 people and was testing those onboard for the new coronavirus Tuesday after a former passenger was diagnosed with the illness in Hong Kong.
Television footage showed several quarantine officers boarding the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the port of Yokohama on Monday evening to check all 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew.
The move comes after an 80-year-old passenger who disembarked on January 25 in Hong Kong tested positive for the virus, which has killed 425 people in China.
The man "did not visit a medical centre inside the ship while he was sailing with us," cruise operator Carnival Japan said in a statement.
The vessel's departure from Yokohama would be delayed by at least 24 hours to Wednesday or later, Carnival Japan said.