Americans Evacuated From Quarantined Cruise Ship Off Japan | NBC Nightly News

Tonight, hundreds of Americans got off the Diamond Princess in an evacuation involving the US. The teams in protective suits understand that you want to return to the US, that's right, honestly, you are much safer getting off this

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. Paul and Cheryl Molesky can't wait to leave. I have to put on my mask and still leave your room after almost two weeks of quarantine, the bus will take you a plane, a plane will take you to the United States and then you will arrive at the spaceport. We know you've been through a lot. We're happy to take you home and take a chartered flight back to the U.S.

You're exhausted from facing another fourteen days of isolation on a military base. Shara Molesky's video shows what she describes as an isolation chamber aboard the

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. A high risk of exposure with another 70 cases confirmed today. 355 and all and two-thirds of the passengers have not yet been tested and concern for the Wester Dam is growing. The

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ship was turned away by five countries before docking in Cambodia. An American woman tested positive, but hundreds of passengers were allowed to leave the ship, raising fears that the virus could spread to those who decided not to. take the Charter cannot return to the US until March 4 at the earliest according to a letter from the US Embassy also left behind 46 Americans being treated here like John Herring isolated and isolated I think so It has to be the virus here, I would hate to give this to someone else.

She wanted his wife to take the flight back to the US where returning passengers will be tested for the virus when they land and begin a new experience and Janice is with us now. Janice, you said. Some Americans were left behind, what do they need to do now to get off that ship? Well, they have to stay on the ship until the Japanese authorities and quarantine, which should happen on Wednesday, but anyone who wants to leave will have to test negative for the virus. before they can leave and for Americans to return home it will take a little longer