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The Official Breaking News & Discussion thread on the Coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19).
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The 2019 novel coronavirus is now named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), while the disease associated with it is referred to as COVID-19 ("CO" for "Corona", "VI" for "Virus", and "D" for Disease). Formerly, this disease was referred to as “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV.”

SARS-CoV-2 was identified in China at the end of 2019 and is a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans. Analysis of the genetic tree of this virus indicates it originated in bats, but whether the virus jumped directly from bats or whether there was an intermediary animal host is not yet known.

The principal mode of transmission is still thought to be respiratory droplets, which may travel up to six feet from someone who is sneezing or coughing. The new coronavirus isn’t believed to be an airborne virus, like measles or smallpox, that can circulate through the air.

Close contact with an infectious person, such as shaking hands, or touching a doorknob, tabletop or other surfaces touched by an infectious person, and then touching your nose, eyes, or mouth can also transmit the virus.

The virus may be spread by fecal contamination of the environment, such as through leaky sewage pipes.

We do not yet have definitive data on how long the new coronavirus can survive on surfaces, but based on data from other coronaviruses such as SARS, it may be for up to two days at room temperatures.


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Now that the U.S officially gave Japan the thumbs down on their failed quarantine of the SS Coronavirus, I mean, the Diamond Princess cruise ship and air-lifting our people home, I fully expect other countries in the West to follow suit and begin air-lifting their nationals back to their own military bases for another round of 14-day quarantine as well.

Those who choose to remain onboard and continue with this so-called quarantine does so at their own risk, when the infection rate is 4 to 5 new cases every hour.

I really hope they would make a case study out of this to see which link in the chain had failed. My guess is it probably have something to do with the fact that 1) a cruise ship may be huge but the space inside is very confined, it might well be possible that everyone are already infected long ago before the quarantine began, and 2) only the 2,666 passengers are quarantined but the 1,045 crew members aren't, all it takes is one of the infected crew to spread it to everyone else.


Why the US break Japan's Diamond Princess coronavirus quarantine: 'Something went awry'
By DAVID OLIVER | USA TODAY | Feb 17, 2020

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A top health official at the National Institutes of Health shed light on the decision to evacuate hundreds of American passengers from the coronavirus-infected Diamond Princess Cruises ship – 14 of whom tested positive for the virus.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said the original idea to keep people safely quarantined on the ship wasn't unreasonable. But even with the quarantine process on the ship, virus transmission still occurred.

The Japanese health ministry said Monday that the number of cases confirmed aboard the Diamond Princess had reached 454.

"As it turned out, that was very ineffective in preventing spread on the ship," Fauci told the USA TODAY Editorial Board and reporters Monday. Every hour, another four or five people were being infected.

The quarantine on the ship was scheduled to end Feb. 19, and those who came back to the U.S. a couple of days ahead of the end of the quarantine probably will have to restart the clock on a new 14-day quarantine.

The Princess Cruises ship was carrying 2,666 guests and 1,045 crew when it set sail and was quarantined after 10 cases of coronavirus were reported Feb. 4. About 380 Americans were on the cruise ship.

"The quarantine process failed," Fauci said. "I'd like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed. People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry in the process of the quarantining on that ship. I don't know what it was, but a lot of people got infected on that ship."

Passengers were instructed to stay in their suites or cabins during the quarantine. Those in interior cabins with no window or outdoor access were able to go on deck for up to an hour and a half but had to stay at least 3 feet from fellow passengers, Matt Smith, a family law attorney from Sacramento, California, told USA TODAY a few days into the quarantine. Meals were dropped off at the door by the ship’s crew.

The crew also distributed masks and thermometers, and passengers were asked to take their temperatures and report readings above 99.5 degrees, Smith said. Common coronavirus symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath.

The State Department coordinated with the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to bring passengers back to the U.S. It was a tough call to make in the first place, but it grew tougher once 14 passengers tested positive for the virus.

The passengers were thought to be negative and put into the evacuation process. As they were on the bus getting ready to leave, tests came back positive.

Fauci explained there was a choice: Should these people stay in Japan, or should they be flown home?

Passengers ultimately boarded flights home. The infected and the uninfected flew in separate areas of the plane. The infected were in an area Fauci described as similar to a containment laboratory.

To call the situation stressful would be an understatement.

"Many of them were elderly; many of them had underlying conditions," Fauci said. "They just wanted to get home, and we felt it was safe enough on the plane to get them home without infecting anybody else."

Fauci said health officials are expecting more positive tests, and he wouldn't be surprised if the number of infected evacuees turned out to be higher than 14.

Not all passengers opted to leave the ship. Smith told USA TODAY he was not planning to take the charter flight back to the U.S.

"We think the way they are handling this is not safe," Smith said Saturday. "They want to take hundreds of people off the ship before the quarantine here has been completed and without them ever being tested, and they want to throw them on buses together, then a plane, then force them to serve another 14-day quarantine under unknown circumstances."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...d-princess-cruise-quarantine-fail/4785290002/
 
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Canada, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Israel, and the Philippines are following suit in evacuation of their citizens, as infections on the SS Coronavirus continue to mounts 48 hours before its 14-day "quarantine" by Japan is up:

Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan confirms 99 new coronavirus cases, bringing new total to 454



Another 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus onboard the stricken Princess Diamond cruise ship docked in Japan, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 454.

Hundreds of American passengers from the Diamond Princess, where travellers have been mostly confined to their cabins since 3 February, have been flown back to the US. Fourteen passengers tested positive during the evacuation, the US state department said.

Australia said it would follow suit on Wednesday. Both countries have said citizens will face a further two weeks of quarantine after arriving home. Forty American passengers who were diagnosed with the virus have already been transferred to hospitals in Japan.

Some Diamond Princess passengers still on the ship face another two weeks in isolation if they have shared a cabin with someone who tests positive.
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Canada to evacuate passengers from virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship



Canada has chartered a plane to evacuate its citizens onboard the Diamond Princess cruise liner docked in Yokohama, Japan, the Canadian government said in a statement late on Saturday.

Canadian passengers who exhibit symptoms of the coronavirus infection will not be permitted to board the flight and will instead be transferred to the Japanese health care system to receive appropriate care, the government said.

After arriving in Canada, the passengers will undergo a 14-day period of quarantine, the statement added.

The United States and Hong Kong have said they will send aircraft to Japan to bring back passengers from the quarantined cruise ship, which has seen the most coronavirus infections outside of China.
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South Korea joins other nations planning to evacuate citizens on Diamond Princess



South Korea said on Sunday it would evacuate Koreans from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship being held under quarantine in the Japanese port of Yokohama, after 355 people from it were found to be infected with the virus.

“The government plans to bring those Koreans home if they are tested negative from screenings by the Japanese authorities and are willing to return,” Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo told a briefing.

The Diamond Princess, cruise ship, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama on February 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it travelled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.

The US was preparing on Sunday to evacuate some of its citizens but said those repatriated will go through another two-week quarantine period at home.

An on-board announcement late on Sunday said Americans choosing to leave should get ready, according to tweets from passengers.

“Disembarkation will begin at approximately 9pm (1200 GMT),” the announcement said, asking the group to place their luggage outside their cabin doors.

Japan’s Self-Defence Forces will use about 20 buses to transport the evacuees to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, according to TV Asahi.

“Based on the high number of Covid-19 cases identified on board the Diamond Princess, the Department of Health and Human Services made an assessment that passengers and crew members on board are at high risk of exposure,” the US embassy said in a letter to its citizens on the boat.

Hong Kong has also said it will offer its 330 city residents on board the chance to take a charter flight back.

Canada announced a similar decision to repatriate its nationals, while Australia and Taiwan are considering such a move, according to local media reports.

Japan has not been able to test all those on board due to limited supplies of testing kits, facilities and manpower, which are also needed by authorities tracking the spread of the virus on land.

But the health ministry said on Saturday that passengers older than 70 are being examined and those testing negative and in good health will be allowed to leave the ship from Wednesday.

Tests on younger passengers were expected to start on Sunday and healthy people will be allowed to get off after Wednesday, it said.
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Philippines readies repatriation of 500 Pinoys on cruise ship
By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan, Jovic Yee

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Embassy in Japan is preparing to repatriate more than 500 Filipinos from the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined off Yokohama, Japan, when the vessel’s 14-day isolation ends on Wednesday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday said the embassy in Tokyo was coordinating with Philippine and Japanese government agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ship manager, Princess Cruises, “to ensure that the needs of the Filipino crew and passengers are met and to facilitate their return to the Philippines.”

Details of the repatriation were to be discussed during the meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Monday afternoon, according to Assistant Foreign Secretary Eduardo Menez.

27 infected

As of Sunday, 27 of the 538 Filipinos aboard the Diamond Princess were confirmed to have been infected with the new coronavirus, according to the DFA. All the 27 are crew members.

Except for seven passengers, all of the Filipinos aboard the ship are crew members.

All those out of the 3,500 passengers and crew still aboard the vessel were to be tested for the new coronavirus beginning on Monday, in preparation for the lifting of the quarantine.

The DFA said the Japanese Ministry of Health announced that test results would be available by the end of the quarantine.

The ship was quarantined on Feb. 6, days after docking off Yokohama when authorities learned that a former passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong in January tested positive for the virus.

Once they arrive in the country, the Filipinos to be repatriated from the ship will again be placed under quarantine for 14 days as precaution against the spread of the new virus in the Philippines, Assistant Health Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said on Monday.

Vergeire said the new quarantine was necessary because the Filipinos were not exposed to the virus all at the same time.

“We must understand how they got infected [on] that ship,” Vergeire told a news briefing at the Department of Health (DOH).

Vergeire said the Japanese government had requested that all people on the ship be repatriated once the quarantine ended.

How to handle repatriates

Up to Monday, however, it was unclear how the government planned to handle the 538 Filipinos who would be repatriated from the ship.

Vergeire said the interagency task force had discussed the matter. “Currently we are in the planning and discussion stage,” she said.

On Feb. 2, the government repatriated 30 Filipinos from Wuhan, capital city of the central Chinese province of Hubei that is the epicenter of the new virus epidemic, and placed them on quarantine at Athletes’ Village in Capas, Tarlac province. Their 14-day quarantine ends this week.

Vergeire, however, could not say whether the Filipinos from the Diamond Princess would also be isolated at Athletes’ Village.

Local officials and residents of Capas protested the use of Athletes’ Village as quarantine, saying it could expose the town to the virus.

Travel restrictions

They also said they were not consulted before the interagency task force decided to bring the Filipinos from Wuhan to Capas.

Vergeire also gave assurance that the DOH would follow a more “comprehensive” process before recommending travel restrictions for other countries with confirmed cases of the virus.

The DOH drew flak last week for recommending a ban on all travel to and from Taiwan following the government’s One China policy. The government imposed the ban late Monday last week, forcing the cancellation of flights and leading to chaos at the airports in Manila and Taipei, where Filipinos returning to jobs or taking new jobs in Taiwan or returning home were stranded.

Taiwan vigorously protested the ban, arguing that it was separately governed from China and that the DOH should not have given significance to the WHO assessment that lumped the situation on the island with conditions in the mainland.

Taipei threatened countermeasures if Manila did not lift the ban. Manila lifted it on Friday.

The government has banned all travel to and from China and its two administrative regions—Hong Kong and Macau—to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus to the Philippines. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., however, said on Saturday that the ban on travel to Hong Kong would be reviewed.

At her press briefing on Monday, Vergeire said the interagency task force had not yet discussed whether to expand the ban to include other countries.
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The US yesterday took 340 of its citizens to Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento, California, and Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.

Officials from the US State Department and Health Department said all passengers had been assessed as fit to fly before being evacuated.

However, on the way to the airport, test results that had been carried out two to three days earlier showed that 14 people in the group were infected.

Rather than return them to the ship, the decision was taken to place them in isolation chambers and go ahead with the evacuation.


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Buses carrying US passengers who were aboard the quarantined cruise ship the Diamond Princess, seen in background, leaves Yokohama port, near Tokyo


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The State Department confirmed that, after the evacuees had been placed on buses to the airport, 14 people who were not showing symptoms had tested positive for the virus - and were then placed into isolation chamber.

All American passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will have to go through another 14-day quarantine in the U.S.
 
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The last thread said it wasnt time to panic yet. Does that mean it's time to panic now?
 
I’ve got CoVid19 taking the W via octagon control
 
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but this was probably created in a Chinese lab. Not good. If it was made as a weapon, who knows what dirty tricks this virus can pull.

and at @Arkain2K
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Those open markets in China that are serving up live wild animals who feed from their sewage infested waters have been a breeding ground for epidemics over the years.

This one may not kill us all but eventually something terrible is going wipe out a good portion of the world if that shit isn't cleaned up.
 
China says 80% of coronavirus cases have been mild, as death toll rises again
By Bradford Betz | Fox News | Feb 17, 2020

Chinese health officials released a report which stated that among nearly 45,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, 80 percent were mild and the rate of new cases has been falling since early February, as the country noted 1,886 new virus cases and 98 more deaths Tuesday.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general for the World Health Organization, said the report from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention gave WHO a "clearer picture of the outbreak, how it's developing and where it's headed.”

The new disease first emerged in late December in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has spread to more than two dozen other countries. Chinese officials have said over 70,000 people have been infected and 1,868 have died in mainland China.

The new study reported on 44,672 cases confirmed in China as of Feb. 11. The virus caused severe diseases such as pneumonia in 14 percent and critical illness in 5 percent. The death rate for those confirmed cases has been 2.3 percent — 2.8 percent for males versus 1.7 percent for females.

The COVID-19 cases have included few children, and the risk of death has risen with age and among people with health problems. The rate of new cases apparently has been declining since Feb. 1, but that could change as people return to work and school after the Chinese holidays, the report warned.

Japanese officials, meanwhile, confirmed 99 more people were infected by the new virus aboard the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 454. Health Ministry officials said they have now tested 1,723 people on the ship, which had about 3,700 passengers and crew aboard. Outside China, the ship had the largest number of cases of COVID-19.

On Sunday night and Monday, 328 American cruise ship passengers arrived in the U.S., including 14 who tested positive for the virus and were taken to hospitals in California and Nebraska. Others were being quarantined at military bases in California and Texas.

A charter plane dropped off 170 passengers at Travis Air Force Base in the San Francisco Bay Area late Sunday, while another took about 145 passengers to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas early Monday.

Four of the Americans who tested positive for the virus were transported to California hospitals. Ten others, along with three spouses, were flown to Omaha, Neb., to get care at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, officials said. All are expected to remain at the university hospital for at least 14 days.

New cases in other countries, meanwhile, raised concerns about containing the virus. Taiwan on Sunday reported its first death from the virus, the fifth death outside mainland China. Taiwan's Central News Agency, citing health minister Chen Shih-chung, said the man who died was in his 60s and had not traveled overseas recently and had no known contact with virus patients.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convened a meeting of experts to discuss containment measures in his country, where more than a dozen cases have emerged in the past few days without any obvious link to China.

Japan had at least 518 confirmed cases, including the 454 from the cruise ship, and one death from the virus.
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Its not a quarantine if youre letting potential infected mingle with potential healthy, three feet away is DC level incredulity. Anyway that ship is doomed. Wouldnt be surprised if it turns out everyone on board is hosting. Bring our Trojan Horses home.
 
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Arkain2K said:
China says 80% of coronavirus cases have been mild, as death toll rises again
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I'm cautiously optimistic due to the (so far) low death rate from Japan/cruise ships, which is the biggest sample we have from outside of China (and certainly the only semi-reliable sample). It seems to be spreading quickly, but not killing nearly as many people as a 1% to 2% death rate would imply. If the true rate is around 0.5%, which seems plausible, then things may not turn out too badly.

We are at 897 confirms cases outside of China with 5 deaths. This is a death rate of 0.55%. That's bad, but it's not the end of the world. The recovered vs dead rate isn't bad either; 158 recovered outside of china and 5 deaths is about 3.1%. This number may be an overestimate for the reasons that have been repeated ad nauseum in prior threads.

The only thing keeping me from wanting to pop the champagne just now is the fear that people have severely underestimated the incubation period. If you can incubate longer than 14 days asymptomatically, and if dangerous symptoms can take up to a week or more after symptoms first appear to materialize, it might still be too soon to estimate the likely death rate outside of China.

Hopefully we'll know in a couple of weeks.
 
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I'm cautiously optimistic due to the (so far) low death rate from Japan/cruise ships, which is the biggest sample we have from outside of China (and certainly the only semi-reliable sample). It seems to be spreading quickly, but not killing nearly as many people as a 1% to 2% death rate would imply. If the true rate is around 0.5%, which seems plausible, then things may not turn out too badly.

We are at 897 confirms cases outside of China with 5 deaths. This is a death rate of 0.55%. That's bad, but it's not the end of the world. The recovered vs dead rate isn't bad either; 158 recovered outside of china and 5 deaths is about 3.1%. This number may be an overestimate for the reasons that have been repeated ad nauseum in prior threads.

The only thing keeping me from wanting to pop the champagne just now is the fear that people have severely underestimated the incubation period. If you can incubate longer than 14 days asymptomatically, and if dangerous symptoms can take up to a week or more after symptoms first appear to materialize, it might still be too soon to estimate the likely death rate outside of China.

Hopefully we'll know in a couple of weeks.
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you forget that China has already shown they are low on body bags. We’ve watched a video of 3 kids being put into one.

we see white vans going around picking up the dead from sealed houses.

China is WAY WAY WAY undercounting the dead. It’s criminal of them to do so.

all bodies go to the crematoriums.
 
Wuhan Hospital Director Dies from Coronavirus
FEB 17 2020

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The director of a Chinese hospital located in the city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak died Tuesday, adding to the number of medical staff who have lost their lives to the contagious disease.

Liu Zhiming, 51, died Tuesday morning of the new coronavirus after an all-out rescue effort failed to save him, the Wuhan municipal health commission said in Chinese on its website, according to a CNBC translation.

He was the director of the city’s Wuchang Hospital. It is one of the designated hospitals for treating the virus, which emerged in the city in December before spreading around the country.

Wuhan, a city of about 11 million people, still accounts for the majority of deaths and confirmed cases from the new virus. Roughly three-fourths of the over 1,800 people who have died of the disease in mainland China are from the city, according to the National Health Commission.

Firsthand accounts about the health-care conditions in Wuhan and the surrounding Hubei province remain grim, with reports of shortages in medical staff, supplies and hospital beds. The city has raced to build two new designated hospitals and repurpose other locations to care for the more than 40,000 confirmed cases.

As of Monday night, the number of beds at designated Wuhan hospitals was less than half that figure at just over 19,100 — and 94% were filled, according to Wuhan’s health commission’s website. The report also showed that out of 45 facilities, 17 had zero beds available.

Health care workers at risk

Medical workers have accounted for nearly 4% of confirmed virus cases as of the end of Feb. 11, Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, said at a press conference Friday. Out of the more than 1,700 infected disclosed then, six had died, Zeng said.

Earlier this month, 34-year-old doctor Li Wenliang, who was initially reprimanded by local authorities for his early warnings about the virus, died in Wuhan from the new coronavirus. He contracted the virus after treating infected patients, and his death caused an outpouring of anger and condolences on Chinese social media.

In recent days, Chinese authorities have emphasized a decline in the number of confirmed cases outside the province of Hubei, where Wuhan is located. The central government has made cracking down on the disease there a national priority.

More than 30,000 health workers from across the country have been sent to the region, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a release Tuesday that outlined a meeting Monday of a national-level working group headed by Premier Li Keqiang.

Protection of medical workers should be strengthened, and more medical staff will be brought in as needed, the release said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/18/hospital-director-dies-in-china-of-the-new-coronavirus.html
 
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Damn. The director died. Viruses don’t discriminate on class.

here, this news channel claims China has had the incubation period go up to 42 days, and we’ve already heard the 24 day reports.

I like our officials response that I’ll sum up as “if that’s true, that’s going to make our job much much harder”

 
Pseudo Sane said:
I'm cautiously optimistic due to the (so far) low death rate from Japan/cruise ships, which is the biggest sample we have from outside of China (and certainly the only semi-reliable sample). It seems to be spreading quickly, but not killing nearly as many people as a 1% to 2% death rate would imply. If the true rate is around 0.5%, which seems plausible, then things may not turn out too badly.

We are at 897 confirms cases outside of China with 5 deaths. This is a death rate of 0.55%. That's bad, but it's not the end of the world. The recovered vs dead rate isn't bad either; 158 recovered outside of china and 5 deaths is about 3.1%. This number may be an overestimate for the reasons that have been repeated ad nauseum in prior threads.

The only thing keeping me from wanting to pop the champagne just now is the fear that people have severely underestimated the incubation period. If you can incubate longer than 14 days asymptomatically, and if dangerous symptoms can take up to a week or more after symptoms first appear to materialize, it might still be too soon to estimate the likely death rate outside of China.

Hopefully we'll know in a couple of weeks.
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This issue is if it proliferates too much it has an increased chance of mutating. You don't want it to go into it's new form.
 
Of more than 450 people on the Diamond Princess who tested positive, 189 are asymptomatic

Out of a total of 1,723 passengers and crew members tested on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan, 454 people were confirmed to have been infected, Japan's health ministry said. That included 189 asymptomatic carriers, or those who tested positive but did not show any symptoms, according to the ministry.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/18/coronavirus-covid-19-latest-updates-china-death.html
 
Americans Evacuated From Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Arrive in U.S.



Americans evacuated from the virus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship are arriving in the United States, where they will be quarantined for another 14 days on military bases in California and Texas.

“I have no idea where they will send me from here and I’m told we don’t get a choice,” Sarah Arana, 52, who was on the flight to California, said in a Facebook post. “But it doesn’t even matter. I am back home.”

Some 340 Americans boarded two chartered planes from Japan, where the cruise ship — docked in Yokohama — became the largest cluster of the novel coronavirus outside mainland China. On Monday, Japanese authorities once again raised the number of people on the ship infected with the virus to 454.

There were around 400 Americans on the Diamond Princess, at least 44 of whom have tested positive for the virus, named COVID-19. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told TIME Sunday that the count was still “in flux” and likely to be “more than that.”

Cheryl and Paul Molesky of Syracuse, New York, were among the evacuating passengers. “Well, we’re exhausted, but we’re on the plane and that’s a good feeling. Pretty miserable wearing these masks though, and everybody had to go to the bathroom on the bus,” Cheryl said in a video. Paul said they waited on the bus for five hours, “waiting to get off the bus.”

According to CNN, passengers flew back to the U.S. on converted 747 cargo planes, which have less insulation than passenger planes and thus are colder.

But not all the Americans were evacuated. Arnold and Jeannie Hopland of Elizabethton, Tennessee, remained in Japan, according to local news channel WJHL, because Jeannie had tested positive for coronavirus before they left for the airport. Arnold has reportedly tested negative. WJHL reports they do not know how long they will be required to stay in Japan.

“A few days ago, the steward who had been bringing them food to their cabins tested positive for this virus,” the couple’s son Kenny Hopland, a physician, reportedly told WJHL. “There’s no question that they got exposed to the virus because they were forced to stay on the ship.”

The first U.S. chartered flight arrived at Travis Air Force Base in northern California early Monday. The second flight landed two hours later at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.

The U.S. is the first country to evacuate its citizens from the cruise. Governments in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong are also planning to charter flights to repatriate their nationals. The Russian Embassy to Japan announced in a Facebook post on Monday that a Russian citizen who was on board has also tested positive for the virus, and will be taken to a hospital to be treated, per the AP.

The Diamond Princess has been stuck in the Yokohama harbor since Feb. 3 after the cruise company learned a passenger from Hong Kong had tested positive for the new coronavirus after disembarking last month.
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