Two Russians came down with the liner Diamond Princess in Japan

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In Japan, two Russians disembarked from aboard a cruise liner Diamond Princess, which was on a two-week quarantine due to the coronavirus. From the port of Yokohama, they were taken on the Embassy car, according to RIA Novosti.

is Expected to fly home off the ship, Russian citizens will only be able Thursday, February 20.

At the moment the ship left 500 people, most of whom were elderly. Another 20 Russians remain on the liner. It is expected that they will step ashore along with other passengers by 21 February. It is also known that the couple from Russia is in the hospital – the virus has been confirmed in a man, his wife was hospitalized because of the risk of infection.

it was Noted that the neighbors of an infected passenger vessel Diamond Princess will not be able to leave the Board. Such a fate befall those who lived in the same cabins with the infected. They will have to remain in quarantine for an indefinite period in order to ensure they have no signs of disease.

the Cruise liner was released from the Japanese port to a two-week voyage on January 20. On 3 February it became clear that one of the passengers that come ashore in Hong Kong were infected with a coronavirus. After the ship was placed on a two-week quarantine. Every day the number of infected new type of pneumonia increased.

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