Japan's COVID-19 response in focus as woman let off cruise ship tests positive
A growing number of questions are being raised about the government’s decision not to isolate passengers allowed to leave the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its failure to test some others during the quarantine period.
The health ministry let 23 passengers off the Diamond Princess cruise ship without going through mandated tests for the novel coronavirus, health minister Katsunobu Kato said Saturday. For three days through Friday, 970 passengers who tested negative in tests after Feb. 5 were allowed to ...
100 cabin mates of Diamond Princess patients disembark for new quarantine in Saitama
Passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, currently quarantined in Yokohama, who shared cabins with COVID-19-infected people disembark. They will be kept for another two weeks of medical observation at a public institution in Saitama Prefecture.
One is a preschooler in Saitama who returned from Wuhan with his dad, who tested positive earlier, and the other two are brothers in Hokkaido.
SDF on Diamond Princess get more protection after 'chaos' claim in video
The Defense Ministry has bolstered protective measures for its medical staff on the Diamond Princess, applying a stricter protocol for using gear on the infected cruise ship, Defense Minister Taro Kono said Friday. About 50 staffers from the Self-Defense Forces are working on the vessel ...
Two Diamond Princess passengers infected with coronavirus die as Japan reports new cases
Health ministry officials said they suspect the two passengers were infected before the ship was placed under a two-week quarantine on Feb. 5.
COVID-19 spread on Diamond Princess before quarantine, report suggests
Transmission toward the end of the quarantine period occurred mostly among crew or within passenger cabins, the report also said.
Diamond Princess ordeal ends for passengers who tested negative for COVID-19
The evacuation began Wednesday of a cruise ship quarantined after an outbreak of new coronavirus COVID-19, with several hundred passengers who had tested negative being allowed to leave the ship. About 500 individuals, most of them elderly, disembarked from the Diamond Princess on Wednesday. Many ...
Expert stirs controversy with video on 'inadequate' virus controls on Diamond Princess
Controversy was stirred among the public and at the Diet Wednesday, after an infectious disease expert posted a now-deleted video online in which he claimed to have seen inadequate anti-virus contamination measures on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. In the YouTube clip posted late Tuesday, ...
New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan as 88 more aboard Diamond Princess test positive
Near the end of its two-week quarantine, 88 more people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama tested positive for COVID-19, the health ministry said Tuesday, with 65 of them experiencing no symptoms such as fever or coughs. The newly infected passengers range in ...
Nissan CEO tells angry shareholders he is ready to be sacked if no turnaround
Nissan Motor Co.'s new chief executive said Tuesday he will accept being fired if he fails to turn around Japan's second-biggest automaker, which is grappling with plunging sales in the aftermath of the scandal surrounding former Chairman Carlos Ghosn. Addressing shareholders for the first time ...
328 Americans from coronavirus-hit ship fly home, but 44 stay in Japan for treatment
A group of 328 Americans previously aboard a cruise ship quarantined off Japan left for home early Monday morning on chartered flights, while 44 stayed in the nation for medical treatment. Those that remained are among hundreds that have become infected with COVID-19 aboard the ...
