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Diamond Princess evacuate Americans and Italians
In the port of Jokogam, more than 400 US citizens are evacuated, who have so far on board the Diamond Princess cruise vessel under strict quarantine due to the probability of their infection with coronavirus.
According to Interfax , on specially equipped buses, evacuated will be delivered to a special aircraft that will transport them to the United States. Another quarantine awaits travelers - already under the supervision of American doctors in stationary conditions. The CNN television channel became aware that two aircraft of the American airline Kalitta Air arrived at Tokyo International Airport. According to him, they will have to take out Americans who are on board Diamond Princess.
The first evacuation of passengers of the cruise airliner takes place in conditions when the number of infected ones is growing on board Diamond Princess. More than 3 thousand people remain on the ship - about two thousand travelers and one thousand sailors and service personnel.
On Sunday, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Muo ordered to send a plane to Japan to deliver 35 Italians from there from there from the board of the Diamond Princess liner. Of these, 24 Italians are crew members, including the captain of the vessel.
The evacuation of fellow citizens are working on the Ministry of Defense of Italy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health. The date of sending the aircraft has not yet been announced.
On January 20, the Diamond Princess liner went from the Japanese city of Jokoham on a two -week cruise along the Kagoshim - Hong Kin -Okinava route, which was supposed to end on February 4, but it turned out that one of the passengers who went ashore in Hong Kong was infected with coronavirus.
On February 3, the cruise ship remained on the raid in the port of Jokogama to check all the passengers. The Ministry of Health of Japan demanded to leave the liner for 14-day quarantine.
According to the latest data, the number of infected on board the vessel increased to 355 people.