Gay Courter, isolated on the Diamond Princess for 10 days, says she arrived to applause at a U.S. air base. However, her long journey home to Florida is not over.
A passenger who was among hundreds of Americans who volunteered to disembark the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship over the weekend, told CNBC Tuesday that the evacuees received a round of applause after making it back to U.S. soil.
"I burst into tears. It was like 'welcome home,'" said Gay Courter, who spent 10 days in quarantine with her husband Phil Courter near Tokyo. She made the comments in a video that aired onMore than 3,700 passengers and crew were initially ordered by Japanese health officials to a 14-day quarantine to stop the spread of the virus, though some have now been allowed to leave the vessel.
"We should be able to go outside. We need fresh air to stay healthy," she said. "It's just so hard for me to even talk about this."The quarantine is expected to end Wednesday. In order to be allowed back in the country, the individuals must wait 14 days after disembarking the ship without showing any symptoms or testing positive for COVID-19., and 2,004 people have died so far.
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