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Added on the 16/02/2020 14:15:38 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show American tourists on buses leaving the port where their quarantined cruise ship is docked in Japan, to board chartered flights home as the number of new coronavirus cases diagnosed on the vessel jumped to 355. The Diamond Princess was placed in a 14-day quarantine in early February after a former passenger tested positive for the virus. Americans on board were given the option to leave the ship and fly home, where they will face another 14-day isolation period. IMAGES
The first passengers are taken ashore from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship after it docked in Oakland, California. IMAGES
Buses start transporting passengers who have tested negative for the new coronavirus as they begin leaving a cruise ship in Japan that has seen more than 500 cases of the potentially deadly disease. IMAGES
The first plane carrying US citizens evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan land at Travis Air Force Base in California. The charter flight touched down around 11:29 pm (0729 GMT Monday) at the base 40 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, an AFP photographer saw. IMAGES
Passengers are seen walking on the deck of the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan on Friday. The vessel has become the single largest cluster of cases outside China, with 218 testing positive for the COVID-19 virus as of Thursday and taken to medical facilities. IMAGES