Passengers on a Virus-Stricken Cruise Ship in Japan Speak About Life Under Quarantine
The coronavirus—known as 2019-nCoV—has infected nearly 28,350 people,to a virus tracker set up by Johns Hopkins University, and claimed over 500 lives. The vast majority of infections and fatalities are in China, where the virus originated, but there are cases in over a dozen countries, including 45 in Japan, where the passengers and crew of the Diamond Princess are waiting to see if they, too, will fall sick.
The luxury cruise ship, once bustling with busy restaurants, trivia game nights and Broadway-style shows, has been reduced to an eerie quiet. Passengers are confined to their rooms, and the only human interaction Maniscalco has, besides for with her husband, is with staff three times a day, when they come to her door—wearing face masks and gloves—to deliver meals.
Crew members are stationed in corridors to make sure nobody leaves their cabins. If passengers venture out onto the balconies leading off their cabins, they are supposed to wear masks. Maniscalco boarded the cruise in Tokyo on Jan. 20 and was meant to fly back to the U.S. this week. A realtor, she says she broke down when she realized that she would miss the peak sales season for her business. “This is going to impact me for the rest of the year.”
For now, she tries to do what she can remotely. “I get a lot of my business on social media, so I’ve been on Facebook a whole lot, and checking my emails,” she says.The Diamond Princess is not the only cruise ship to be affected by a coronavirus scare. On Wednesday, the World Dream—a ship owned by a subsidiary of the Malaysian Genting group—from docking in Taiwan after reports that three passengers from mainland China who were previously on board had since been diagnosed with coronavirus.
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