Australian authorities are awaiting the advice of a medical officer due to board the Diamond Princess today, to finalise plans for a potential evacuation.
Diamond Princess has been a floating quarantine site for a week and a half, with 355 passengers now diagnosed with coronavirus and taken into isolation at hospital onshore after another 70 cases were revealed on Sunday.
United States passengers will be quarantined again in their home country after being allowed to evacuate on Sunday night."It's likely, as the Americans have done, they may have to be in a quarantine situation but [there will be] more advice coming today, decisions today, announcements today," Mr Hunt said.
If there is not enough room on Christmas Island for new evacuees from the Diamond Princess, they could be sent to Darwin, according to the source close to the government. "I'm angry our government has not done anything useful," she said via text message on Sunday. "Mood on board are [sic] people are frightened of the unknown.""I want everyone to be [swab] tested," she said. "If I test negative then I'm happy to self-quarantine at home."
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