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20 February 2020 Two people infected with the coronavirus on board the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship docked in Yokohama, have died: the Japanese public TV NHK reports. It is a couple of about 80 years old. The elderly spouses are the first victims confirmed by the authorities who were on board the ship. The confirmed cases of death in Japan due to coronavirus therefore rise to three, after the first occurred last Thursday. The cruise ship, anchored in Yokohama Bay on February 5, initially carried 3,700 passengers from 50 nations, including 35 Italians. People infected on board exceeded 600.For five hundred Diamond Princess passengers, already disembarked from the ship, the nightmare is over. The others, including 35 Italians , begin to see the light at the bottom of the tunnel. After leaving Ciampino on Tuesday evening, the Falcon plane arrived yesterday afternoon with the medical team in charge of testing the Italians to rule out the infection. In the staff sent to Japan also two doctors from Spallanzani of Rome, an anesthesiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Those who test negative will be able to disembark from the ship today, to return home in the evening with a second plane, a Boeing of the Air Force that left yesterday in the evening from Italy.
In addition to thirty Italians, the flight should also bring 27 citizens of other European Union countries back home . Brussels has activated the civil protection mechanism to co-finance Italian flights. Once landed at the military airport of Pratica di Mare, passengers will be subjected to the usual 14-day quarantine, the period deemed necessary by doctors to completely rule out the presence of the disease. For the first few days they will be held in the same military facility in Pomezia, then they will be transferred to the Olympic center of Cecchignola.
From there, in the meantime, the other Italians brought back from Wuhan , the Chinese city epicenter of the epidemic, should leave tomorrow. But before getting other people in, it will take a couple of days to clear the property.
A third flight should depart at a later time to bring back the Italian passenger who was infected with the virus on board the Diamond Princess . It will be a bio-containment plane, the same type as the one used to bring home in recent days Niccolò, the seventeen-year-old from Friuli who had been stuck in Wuhan. If from the medical screenings on the ship other infected people are found, they too will be brought home with the same flight.
"We confirm that Commander Gennaro Arma remains on board the Diamond Princess in Yokohama, in command of the ship, coordinating with public health officials for the safety, health and well-being of passengers and crew. The Commander is in good health and he is leading his team in this extraordinary situation. " So a note released by the owner of the Princess Cruises ship stops in the Japanese port. "At the moment he is not available for any interview. Commander Arma is looking forward to returning home to his wife and family soon. We ask you to respect the privacy of his family."
The British government has announced the repatriation with a special flight sent in these hours of the citizens of the Kingdom who are on board the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship blocked since January 5 in Japan in quarantine due to the coronavirus emergency. The announcement was made by Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, a few hours after the news of the death of an infected passenger couple , two octogenarians whom the BBC identified as Japanese.
Two Russian citizens on board the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess were diagnosed with the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of infected Russian citizens to three. The Russian embassy in Japan has made it known. More than 620 passengers have been infected on the ship, which has been quarantined since February 3 with around 3,700 people on board.
The Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) has announced that 114 new deaths from coronaviruses and 394 additional infections were detected yesterday, raising the total to 2,118 and 74,576 respectively. The new cases are a drastic drop from 1,749 on Tuesday, to the lows of about a month. Hubei reported 349 other infections after the removal of 279 cases that tested negative for nucleic acid tests. China has changed (protocol 'No. 6 trial') in part the parameters of prevention and control, allowing Hubei to remove the "clinically diagnosed".
Chinese efforts to control the coronavirus epidemic "are working" : Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, seeing the reduction of new cases as the result of the "robust action" put in place against the epidemic. "China is not only protecting its people, but also the rest of the world," added Wang, speaking at an ASEAN meeting in Laos.