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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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 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 princess revealed she began treatment in January, and in March recorded video statement in which she said that her condition was initially not believed to be cancerous when she underwent major ...
Diamond Princess in Japan confirmed 99 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infected people on the cruise ship to 454. [ 180 ] Singapore confirmed two more cases, bringing the total number to 77.
Sapphire Princess: 2004: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: 2004–present: 115,875 GT United Kingdom: Originally ordered as the Diamond Princess, she caught fire while under construction, delaying delivery and causing the ship to swap names and be renamed Sapphire Princess. One of two modified Grand-class ships built in Japan, classified as Gem-class