{"id":2549,"date":"2020-04-22T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2020-04-22T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:00:26","slug":"japans-nagasaki-confirms-33-coronavirus-cases-cruise-ship-docked-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/japans-nagasaki-confirms-33-coronavirus-cases-cruise-ship-docked-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nagasaki confirms 33 coronavirus cases on cruise ship docked for repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Authorities in Japan\u2019s western prefecture of Nagasaki have confirmed 33 coronavirus infections on an Italian cruise ship docked for repairs, they said on Wednesday, appealing for help from the central government to tackle the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2550 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"473\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/12.png 852w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/12-150x83.png 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/12-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/12-696x385.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>An aerial view shows Italian cruise ship Costa Atlantica, which had confirmed 33 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, in Nagasaki, southern Japan April 21, 2020. in this photo taken by Kyodo. Picture taken April 21, 2020. Mandatory credit Kyodo\/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS &#8211; THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tests proved positive for 33 of the 56 close shipboard contacts of a single one of the vessel\u2019s 623 crew whose infection had been confirmed on Tuesday, they added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nagasaki\u2019s governor, Hodo Nakamura, told a news conference the central government, the prefecture and Nagasaki city all needed to do their part to quickly resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are a lot of infections on board, and we don\u2019t have the medical system to confirm the health situation and to separate,\u201d those who test positive and negative, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019ll also need a system for transporting patients. It\u2019s difficult for the prefecture to carry out decontamination work so I want to seek the country\u2019s support.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nakamura had requested support through Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only crew were on the Costa Atlantica, operated by Costa Cruises SpA, when the ship was taken into a shipyard in Nagasaki city in late February by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, a unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (<span id=\"\u201dsymbol_7011.T_0\u201d\">7011.T<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The virus pandemic had scuttled plans for scheduled repairs in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japanese health authorities are testing the rest of its crew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who test positive with slight symptoms or who are asymptomatic will stay aboard for monitoring, while those in serious condition will be taken to medical institutions, Nakamura said, with those testing negative sent to home nations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suga told a separate news conference that Japan\u2019s health ministry is cooperating with the Italian government and had sent specialists and cluster infection experts to the ship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Japan\u2019s western prefecture of Nagasaki have confirmed 33 coronavirus infections on an Italian cruise ship docked for repairs, they said on Wednesday, appealing for help from the central government to tackle the incident. An aerial view shows Italian cruise ship Costa Atlantica, which had confirmed 33 cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-2549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}