TOKYO—Nearly 50 crew members on an Italian cruise ship docked for repairs in Japan’s Nagasaki have tested positive for the new CCP virus, raising concern about the strain on the city’s hospitals if conditions worsen for those infected.
Results on Thursday showed 14 more aboard, all either cooks or those serving food, were infected with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, an official in Nagasaki prefecture said. One patient who had been taken to hospital previously was now in serious condition and on a ventilator, he told a live-streamed news conference.
