The Costa Atlantica now hosts one of Japan's biggest clusters of the coronavirus, which infected one-fourth of the more than 600 people then on board. "It seems that a situation similar to the Diamond Princess is being created," said Dr Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security. U will love it go and try it," Zhou wrote on Facebook, the day the seventh person from the Diamond Princess died. Eight days later, after the first coronavirus case was reported in Nagasaki, Mitsubishi and the Costa Atlantica operator asked the crew to stay on board. A health ministry official handling the Costa Atlantica told Reuters the ministry "wasn't in a position to give orders and we don't have the power to enforce them."

Source: bd News24 May 06, 2020 22:52 UTC