AdvertisementPassengers who were in lockdown on a cruise ship in the Italian city of Civitavecchia have now been allowed to leave after confirmation that two people on board do not have coronavirus. The Costa Smeralda ship - carrying 7,000 people including some Britons - had been kept on the ship since Thursday morning after a 54-year-old Chinese woman from Macau came down with flu-like symptoms the previous night. Italy's health ministry has now confirmed that two Chinese cruise ship passengers tested negative for the virus that has killed 170 people so far in the city of Wuhan. CLICK HERE TO SEE MAILONLINE'S FULL Q&A ON THE CORONAVIRUSThe Costa Smeralda is a brand-new ship that only launched in December last year, and cruises around the Mediterranean. The cruise ship is not the only site of a suspected coronavirus outbreak in Italy.

Source: Daily Mail January 30, 2020 11:20 UTC