“I keep hearing painful coughs from a foreigner in a nearby room,” one passenger wrote on Twitter, noting with concern that crew members were delivering meals from room to room. The cruise ship Diamond Princess, where 10 more people were tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, is seen next to a bridge at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan Feb 7, 2020. REUTERSThe cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, with a total of about 3,700 people on board, arrived in Yokohama on Monday night after a 14-day trip to Southeast Asia. Princess Cruises, the company that owns the Diamond Princess, has cancelled two other planned cruises on the ship departing from Yokohama this month. The Diamond Princess is not the only cruise ship caught up in the coronavirus epidemic, which has killed hundreds of people in China.

Source: bd News24 February 07, 2020 06:33 UTC