Warning after 21 test positive on liner, while in Spain police lock down blocks of flats and in China a quarantine hotel collapses
Concern was mounting yesterday for thousands of passengers – many elderly – on a cruise ship being held off San Francisco, after 21 people on board tested positive for coronavirus.
US vice-president Mike Pence urged older Americans to “use caution” in planning cruise holidays in the near future, as he announced plans to bring the Grand Princess into a “non-commercial port” where all passengers and crew would be tested. Individuals would be quarantined and treated as needed. There are more than 3,500 people, including 140 Britons, on the ship. Two of those who tested positive were passengers, while the other 19 were crew members.
