... board the cruise liner Diamond Princess attests to how highly contagious the coronavirus can be. Can the people of Hong Kong really feel comfortable about not wearing masks given all the news footage ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
While the government has started evacuating hundreds of Hong Kong passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, thousands of Hong Kong citizens stranded in central China's ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
The first of at least two chartered flights arranged by the government to bring home Hong Kong residents who had been stuck aboard a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan arrived in the city Thursday m ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
Two passengers from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo have died, public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday, as a second group of passengers began disembarking after two-weeks quarantined o ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-20
... Caribbean cruises because they held Chinese passports – even though they hadn't been to China for at least six months. The cruise company later stated that it would not allow any guests with Chinese, ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
The government is preparing to bring home Hong Kong residents quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been forced to dock in Yokohama, Japan for several weeks to prevent the spr ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
... Princess cruise ship quarantined off the port of Yokohama, bringing the total number of infected passengers to 542. Elsewhere, three more cases were diagnosed in Wakayama Prefecture, including the so ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
... been on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan. Tedros said there had been 92 cases of human-to-human spread of the coronavirus in 12 countries outside China. “We have not seen sustained local transmissi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
More than 300 Americans who had been stuck on a cruise ship affected by the coronavirus were back in the United States on Monday, flown to US military bases for two more weeks of quarantine after spen ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
... upt every cruise ship in the world on the off-chance that there may be some potential contact with some potential pathogen, then where do we stop? We shut down the buses around the world?” There was n ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
The SAR government is arranging a chartered flight to bring home Hong Kong residents quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been forced to dock in Yokohama, Japan for several w ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
American passengers were taken off a cruise liner on Sunday to fly home after being quarantined for two weeks off Japan, Reuters reports. An announcement aboard the Diamond Princess, where 3,700 passe ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
... ents, the cruise business could take a big hit from the epidemic. Cruise tours were once considered one of the most promising travel sectors as many Chinese people had not experienced them and were ke ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
... sitioning cruise liners and Disneyland resort’s hotels for accommodating the returnees during the quarantine period. – Contact us at [email protected] TL/JC/RC ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
China’s coronavirus outbreak showed no sign of peaking with health authorities on Friday reporting more than 5,000 new cases, while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... Princess cruise ship, which is still under quarantine in Yokohama, eight had been confirmed as Covid-19 patients, but the Security Bureau revised the number to 10 several hours later. As Valentine’s ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... ckness. A cruise liner quarantined off a Japanese port has more than 200 people confirmed with the disease. Authorities have said they will allow some elderly people to disembark on Friday. Passengers ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
... gers on a cruise liner now quarantined off the Japanese port of Yokohama, Ryan said. “Outside cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship we are not seeing dramatic increases in transmission outside Chi ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
Japan will allow some elderly passengers on a quarantined cruise liner who test negative for the new coronavirus to disembark ahead of schedule, the health minister said on Thursday, as another 44 new ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-13
... arantined cruises The biggest cluster of cases outside China is on a cruise ship quarantined off the Japanese port of Yokohama, with 175 of about 3,700 people on board having tested positive. The ship ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-13
