Olympia woman among those stuck on quarantined cruise ship in Japan
Marianne Obenchain of Olympia is not angry or disappointed about her decision to take a trip on a cruise ship that is now under quarantine in Japan.
But she is a little scared, she told The Olympian Monday Pacific Standard Time via Facebook Messenger from the Diamond Princess. The ship is in a time zone 17 hours ahead of Olympia.
Diamond Princess was in Day 6 of a 14-day quarantine because passengers on board have contracted the coronavirus. A total of 135 people on the ship — five crew members and 24 Americans — have been confirmed to have the respiratory virus, National Public Radio reported Monday. There are about 3,700 people on board.
As of Monday, the virus had killed more than 1,000 people in China, where more than 42,000 people have been infected since it emerged in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province, according to NPR.
Obenchain is among those Americans and other international passengers who are stuck on the ship after completing a 16-day cruise of Asia. The quarantine is expected to be lifted on Feb. 19.
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