Coronavirus: US evacuates Americans onboard cruise ship
by Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Rebecca Ratcliffe from Science | The Guardian on (#4ZEJX)
Diamond Princess evacuations begin as China announces death toll in country up to 1,665
Hundreds of Americans have been flown out of Japan after leaving the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship on Sunday night, as a further 70 people onboard tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to 355.
The removal of US citizens from the ship, moored at Yokohama, south of Tokyo, came as other countries said they would fly their citizens home just four days before the official quarantine set by Japanese health authorities was set to end.
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