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Diamond Princess and Sapphire Princess were both built in Nagasaki, Japan, by Mitsubishi Industries. There have been two notable outbreaks of infectious disease on the ship – an outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by norovirus in 2016 and an outbreak of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. In the latter incident, the ship was quarantined for ...
As of 8 April, the ship's crew of about 1,000 remained on board, with 200 exhibiting flu-like symptoms; 18 had tested positive for COVID-19. On 11 April, NSW Health announced that from 88 crew who were tested, 44 of them or 50 per cent, tested positive to COVID-19. [268] 542 crew members were taken of the ship for repatriation between 21 and 23 ...
Sapphire Princess is a cruise ship owned by Princess Cruises that entered service in 2004 as the sister ship of Diamond Princess. At the time she was one of the world's largest cruise ships , with a capacity of 2,670 passengers [ 1 ] and is the second Gem-class ship built by Princess Cruises .
The ill-fated Diamond Princess cruise ship, on which more than 700 passengers and crew members tested positive for coronavirus, left Japan over the weekend after more than three months in quarantine.
The Last Cruise documents the experiences of people on board the now-infamous Diamond Princess cruise ship, where an uncontained COVID-19 outbreak at the start of the pandemic became a global spectacle and a faraway symbol of the new virus and its potential to upend any sense of normalcy. The ship set sail from Yokohama, Japan on January 20, 2020.
Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, the cousin of Spain’s King Felipe IV, has become the first royal to die of the novel coronavirus. “On this afternoon... our sister Maria Teresa de ...
The princess said in a message recorded on Wednesday: “It really has made the world of difference to William and me and has helped us both through some of the harder times.
By late March, it was stated that 712 of 3,711 people on the Diamond Princess, or 19.2%, had been infected by COVID-19. [37] [38] Diamond Princess undergoing a cleaning and disinfection process at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama Port photographed on 1 March 2020. By 1 March, all passengers and crew members had disembarked from the ship. [9] [39]