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Passengers Face Daily Worry Quarantined Aboard Luxury Cruise Ship Over Coronavirus
Original source: slate.com
Passengers wait in their cabins on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship as it remains in quarantine in Yokohama, Japan.
Carl Court/Getty ImagesIt sounds like the latest Netflix thriller: a cruise ship full of thousands of tourists is quarantined in a harbor as a contagious virus makes its way around the 17-deck luxury ship infecting new passengers daily.
The Diamond Princess cruise ship has been sitting quarantined in Yokohama harbor for nearly a week with some 3,700 passengers and crew aboard after a passenger from Hong Kong—who disembarked last week—tested positive for coronavirus.
Emergency workers in protective clothing exit the Diamond Princess cruise ship on Feb. 10, 2020.
They also said they would give each passenger a voucher for another cruise at a later date.