A group of Americans are cutting short a 14-day quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo, to be whisked back to America.
The couple from Syracuse, N.Y., are cutting short a 14-day quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo, to be flown back to the United States. But they will have to spend an additional two-week quarantine period at a U.S. military facility to make sure they don’t have the new virus that’s been sweeping across Asia.
About 380 Americans are on the cruise ship. The Japanese defense ministry said around 300 of them are preparing to leave. Some Americans disembarked Sunday night and boarded buses to take them to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The U.S. State Department has arranged for charter flights to take the Americans back to the United States. Canada, Hong Kong and Italy said they were planning similar flights of passengers.
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said Washington was evacuating the Americans because the passengers and crew members on board the Diamond Princess were at a high risk of exposure to the virus.The Americans will be flown to Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, with some continuing to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. After arriving in the U.S.
“We are glad to be going home,” Cheryl Molesky told NHK TV in Japan. “It’s just a little bit disappointing that we’ll have to go through quarantine again, and we will probably not be as comfortable as the Diamond Princess, possibly.”
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