A cruise ship on which a man confirmed to be infected was on board 13 people on Naha February 4 12:18

A cruise ship carrying a Hong Kong man confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus was found to have dropped off 13 passengers when he called at Naha Port on the 1st of this month. Most people have boarded from another port after the man got off and have now been confirmed to be out of the country.

According to Hong Kong health officials, an 80-year-old man living in Hong Kong, who had been a passenger on a cruise ship departing and leaving Yokohama Port, was infected with the new coronavirus this month after disembarking in Hong Kong last month. Was.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the ship departed Yokohama on last month and traveled to Kagoshima, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc., and called at Naha Port on the 1st of this month.

At that time, a quarantine was conducted, but no person with symptoms such as fever or cough was confirmed, and 13 passengers got off the boat, and others also went off the boat temporarily for sightseeing. about it.

According to the Naha Quarantine Station, most of the thirteen men have been confirmed to be abroad from another port after the confirmed male was disembarked last month on 25th and are now out of the country. That is.

A senior Okinawan official said, "No information has been reported so far among the passengers who have disembarked who have been in close contact with the confirmed male, but we will continue to collect information."