Chinese coronavirus was discovered on a cruise ship passenger: 3500 people were quarantined

Princess Cruises cruise ship was quarantined off the coast of Japan after a Chinese coronavirus was discovered on one of the passengers. 3500 passengers were quarantined. Writes about it USA Today.

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A guest from Hong Kong left Diamond Princess liner on January 25, when the ship docked in Hong Kong to visit a local hospital where he was diagnosed with coronavirus.

“While on the ship, he did not visit the ship's medical center to report any symptoms or illness,” the company said in a statement. “The hospital said he is in stable condition and the family members traveling with him are not showing any symptoms.”

On a January 14 cruise, the liner departed January 20 from Yokohama, Japan, and was scheduled to return on Tuesday, February 4. Local health officials check 2666 guests and 1045 crew on board for symptoms.

A Princess Cruises statement said the ship was detained for 24 hours to allow medical teams to do their job.

As of February 4, an outbreak of coronavirus infected more than 20 people and killed more than 000, most of them in China.

The U.S. Department of State raised its travel recommendations to China to level 4, recommending that Americans not go there. This change followed the statement by the World Health Organization on the health emergency caused by coronavirus.

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For the first time in half a century, U.S. health officials issued a federal quarantine order, forcing 195 Americans evacuated from China to remain at a California airbase for 14 days.

What other precautions have been taken?

All three US commercial airlines serving China have announced that they will temporarily suspend all of their flights to and from mainland China.

Cruise lines began to skip calls at Chinese ports, strengthen inspections, cancel sailing and even quarantine a whole ship. The Cruise Lines International Association trading group has promised that its members will refuse to board all those traveling in mainland China in the past two weeks, in addition to other safety precautions.

Chinese authorities suspended air, road, and rail traffic in the Wuhan area, the city where the virus was first detected, and imposed restrictions on other activities throughout the country.

What are the symptoms of coronavirus?

Common symptoms of coronavirus include fever, cough, shortness of breath, and shortness of breath. Experts are not sure whether the virus can be transmitted before or after the onset of symptoms. If the condition worsens, it can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, or even death.

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The virus can be transmitted from animals to humans. But it can also spread by coughing, sneezing, and in close contact with an infected person or object carrying the virus. Experts are still figuring out how long the infected person is contagious, trying to determine the point of transmission.

As of Tuesday, February 4, 11 cases have been reported in the United States.

The first case of person-to-person transmission in the United States is the husband of a Chicago woman who developed symptoms after visiting China.

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