Passengers Chris Peck and Vicki Presland, among 150 Australian passengers who were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise, filmed their walk through the ship, waving farewell to crews before they met up with evacuation officials
SYDNEY - More than 150 Australians arrived home on Thursday to begin two weeks of quarantine after finally leaving a cruise ship docked in Japan on which more than 600 people had contracted a new coronavirus.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 170 Australians were evacuated to the northern port city of Darwin, with 47 left in Japan after either getting infected or deciding to wait out the rest of their quarantine on the ship. The Australians coming home from Japan were all screened on arrival at a quarantine facility in Howard Springs, said Di Stephens, a health official in the Northern Territory.
All 170 evacuees were required to be symptom-free when checked by Japanese health officials before they boarded, although Australia’s chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, has said some might still have the virus.
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