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Half of All Coronavirus Victims Outside China Are Trapped – In One Place, Crypto Coins News

Half of All Coronavirus Victims Outside China Are Trapped – In One Place, Crypto Coins News
  • Half of all coronavirus cases outside of China are all on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
  • The number of infected people on board rose by (overnight to a total of .
  • Scientists say it’s obvious the quarantine hasn’t worked.

A cruise ship docked off the coast of Japan has become an ‘incubator’ for the deadly coronavirus, say scientists. The attempt to quarantine thousands of people in a confined space has failed dramatically, with the total number of infected passengers reaching 728 .

Dr. Nathalie MacDermott, outbreak expert at King’s College London said:

Obviously the quarantine hasn’t worked, and this ship has now become a source of infection.

The ship now accounts for more than half the world’s coronavirus victims outside of China . Coronavirus cases on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship account for half of all cases outside China. Source: Capital Economics Coronavirus spreads like wildfire onboard Diamond Princess

The Diamond Princess cruise ship was docked near Yokohama on February 4th after a passenger tested positive for the coronavirus, which has now been revealed as

73 x more deadly than the flu

. A two-week quarantine period was enforced in an attempt to contain the outbreak. Instead, it appears to have become a petri dish of infection.

Dr. Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia, UK stated:

I suspect people were not as isolated from other people as we would have thought.

Passengers were confined to their cabins and instructed not to interact with others. Those without windows were allowed an hour to walk around on deck before going back into their quarantined rooms. Food was brought to their rooms by staff wearing protective gear.

Two buses arrive next to the Diamond Princess cruise ship, with people quarantined onboard due to fears of the new coronavirus, at the Daikaku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on February , . | Source: Behrouz MEHRI / AFP )

‘Hell on earth’

A British man David Abel, aged , and his wife have been uploading videos to document their time onboard, describing it as ‘hell on earth’. The pair revealed they too had tested positive for the virus this morning. Writing in a Facebook past, Abel wrote:

There is going to be a time of quiet. We have been proved positive and leaving for hospital soon.

Abel and his wife have criticized the British government for not doing more to help them. Meanwhile, the U.S. evacuated 542 passengers over the weekend. had confirmed cases of coronavirus, leading many to question the evacuation

No one on here has had their temperature taken by the federal government, or any government for that matter. So we’re all sitting in really close, tight quarters. Everyone’s sitting next to each other. I have a girl sitting here in just a minute. It seems dangerous – Karey Maniscalco, one of the US evacuees.

‘We have to presume everyone onboard in infected’

Health experts have urged authorities to consider an additional 17 day quarantine period for everyone onboard after they disembark.

Dr. Paul Hunter said:

Given how the virus has continued to spread, we have to presume everyone leaving the ship is affected, and therefore they have to go through another two-week quarantine period … Not to do so would be reckless.

Meanwhile, as much as half the Chinese population remains on lockdown or curfew in a bid to contain the outbreak. Time-lapse footage shows a dramatic reduction in the number of internal flights across the country , suggesting that economic activity has slumped. Even the stock markets took a hit as Apple confirmed the coronavirus outbreak would reduce its revenue .

The total number of infected persons now stands at , with the death toll at 1, .

This article was edited. by Samburaj Das

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