Anonymous ID: c1b818 Jan. 31, 2020, 3:13 p.m. No.7982958   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Cruise passengers found negative

 

CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy (Reuters) โ€” A test carried out on Thursday on a passenger from Macau aboard a cruise ship in Italy proved she did not have the new coronavirus, an Italian health ministry spokesman said.

 

The Costa Crociere companyโ€™s ship Costa Smeralda docked in Civitavecchia, north of Rome, with about 6,000 people aboard. The mayor of the town had asked authorities to prevent passengers from disembarking until it had been confirmed the virus was not present.

 

The 54-year-old woman, who boarded the ship on Jan. 25 in the port of Savona, had come down with a fever and flu-like symptoms. Both she and her partner were placed in an isolation unit on the ship, Costa Crociere said in a statement.

 

The Costa Smeralda had visited Marseilles in France and the Spanish ports of Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca this week before docking on Thursday at Civitavecchia.

 

Samples were taken to Romeโ€™s Spallanzani institute, a centre specializing in infectious diseases and viruses that confirmed there was no infection, the health ministry added.

 

On Thursday, the World Health Organization declared that the coronavirus epidemic in China now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

 

The passengers on board the Italian cruise ship reacted in different ways to the potential virus danger.

https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0006326011