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In Japan, something worried happened. Nearly 1,000 passengers got off the cruise ship after being voiced, one of whom was confirmed late.

I am a correspondent of Yu Sung-jae in Tokyo.

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On January 19, the first day of containment, one female passenger in her 60s who was returned to her home in Tochigi Prefecture was confirmed yesterday (22 days) out of 443 passengers who were voiced and boarded on the cruise ship Diamond Princess.

It was voiced five days before the ship's quarantine began, but there were 23 passengers, including 19 Japanese, who were unloaded without any further inspection.

[Kato / Japan Labor and Welfare Award: We deeply reflect on our business mistakes that have caused this to happen.]

There were 970 passengers who got off the boat during the three days of disembarkation.

Most of them have been scattered by public transportation to their homes in Japan, where it is impossible to rule out additional infections.

Amid controversy over the effects of shipboard containment itself, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said it would return 41 of its employees on the cruise line to work without infectious testing, but later it was sluggish.

Medical staff in charge of quarantine and treatment of cruise passengers are also being bullied.

With reports of cases of being treated as `` bacteria '' at work or openly demanding children to be kept in children's homes, the Japan Disaster Medical Association has issued a statement calling for efforts to protect the human rights of medical staff at risk to prevent the spread of infection.

(Video coverage: Moon Hyun Jin)