Passengers Begin Leaving Quarantined Cruise Ship as US Blocks Americans From Returning

Passengers Begin Leaving Quarantined Cruise Ship as US Blocks Americans From Returning
A reporter approaches a passenger after he walked out from the cruise ship Diamond Princess at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 19, 2020. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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Hundreds of people began disembarking a cruise ship quarantined in Japan on Wednesday as criticism mounted of Japan’s handling of an onboard outbreak of the new coronavirus and the United States told Americans from the ship they wouldn’t be allowed to return home for two weeks.

The Diamond Princess ship was docked in Yokohama for two weeks, quarantined after a patient who left the ship in Hong Kong tested positive for the new virus.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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