About 380 US citizens will be offered seats on two evacuation flights from the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.
The US State Department will evacuate some American citizens and their families aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, the biggest cluster of coronavirus infections outside China, the Wall Street Journal reports.
About 380 people will be offered seats on two evacuation flights from Japan back to the US, the Journal said, citing an official of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .The evacuees will arrive in the US as early as Sunday, the newspaper said, citing Henry Walke, director of the CDC's Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections.Officials at Japan's foreign ministry and health ministry were also not available for comment.
The liner was quarantined in Yokohama after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it travelled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
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