Pence: 21 people on cruise ship off California test positive for coronavirus

By Zach Halaschak

Published March 7, 2020 1:12am ET

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Pence: 21 people on cruise ship off California test positive for coronavirus — In this image from video, provided by the California National Guard, a helicopter carrying airmen with the 129th Rescue Wing flies over the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California Thursday, March 5, 2020. Scrambling to keep the coronavirus at bay, officials ordered a cruise ship with 3,500 people aboard to stay back from the California coast Thursday until passengers and crew can be tested, after a traveler from its previous voyage died of the disease and at least two others became infected. Airmen lowered test kits onto the 951-foot (290-meter) Grand Princess by rope as the vessel lay at anchor off Northern California, and authorities said the results would be available on Friday. Princess Cruise Lines said fewer than 100 people aboard had been identified for testing. | (California National Guard via AP)

Vice President Mike Pence announced that 21 people in a cruise ship off the San Francisco coast have tested positive for coronavirus.

Pence said that 46 people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship were tested for the virus. 19 crew members and two passengers were among those who tested positive. The vice president said that the federal government is working with California’s government to dock the ship at a noncommercial port this weekend.

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