An unspecified variety of Indians were amongst the almost 3,000 guests and team members on board a cruise liner quarantined off Japan due to medical diagnosis of coronavirus cases, the Indian Embassy in Tokyo said on Monday.
Cruise ship Diamond Princess, carrying 3,711 people, came to the Japanese coast early last week and was quarantined after a traveler who de-boarded last month in Hong Kong was found to be the carrier of the unique infection on the ship.
Around 60 individuals evaluated positive of the infection on Monday, taking the overall variety of those contaminated on the ship to130 Authorities had actually initially tested almost 300 people when the ship reached the Japanese coast.
Indian Embassy in Tokyo on Monday tweeted the information about the Indians on the ship.
” Lots of Indian crew & some Indian guests are on board the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined off Japan due to Coronavirus (nCoV),” it tweeted, without providing a particular variety of Indians on the ship.
” In this context, any question please contact First Secretary (Consular) @IndianEmbTokyo at fscons.to