Two Malaysians on Diamond Princess cruise liner tested positive for COVID-19: Health Ministry
18 February, 2020
Two Malaysians on quarantined cruise liner Diamond Princess have tested positive for COVID-19, said medical Ministry on Tuesday (Feb 18).
Posting on his Facebook page, Malaysian director-general of health Noor Hisham Abdullah noted that the cruise liner has the largest cluster of cases outside China.
“Two Malaysians on Diamond Princess cruise were confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 and two more pending (are) awaiting anxiously because of their results,” he said.
“Both infected patients are being isolated and managed in Japan.”
There are a lot more than 450 infected cases on Diamond Princess, currently being quarantined off Japan’s coast.
The vessel, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama on Feb 3, after a guy who disembarked in Hong Kong before it travelled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
There were a lot more than 3,600 people up to speed.
Last Sunday, the United States evacuated about 400 citizens from the Diamond Princess.
Australia, Canada, Italy, South Korea and Hong Kong also have announced plans to repatriate passengers.
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