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‘Quarantine hasn’t worked’: Coronavirus spreads on cruise ship in Japan

By Zach Halaschak
Published February 18, 2020 6:08pm ET
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‘Quarantine hasn’t worked’: Coronavirus spreads on cruise ship in Japan
A TV cameraman films the quarantined ship Diamond Princess, background, anchored at Yokohama port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The cruise ship will begin letting passengers off the boat on Wednesday after it’s been in quarantined for 14 days. | (Koji Sasahara/AP)

The quarantine of a cruise ship in Japan has failed as the number infected with the coronavirus rises.

According to Japan’s health minister, an additional 88 cases of the coronavirus were detected on Carnival’s Diamond Princess cruise ship on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 542 among the approximately 3,600 passengers. The ship has been docked in Yokohama, Japan, since Feb. 3.

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