British Couple on the Coronavirus Infected Cruise Ship Test Positive | Good Morning Britain

We have breaking news for you this

morning

: a British

couple

aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess

cruise

ship

have

test

ed

positive

for

coronavirus

. now they will be taken for observation in japan to a hospital there we think or to a shelter we are not quite sure what is happening with them we will find out from laura in a minute at least 13 percent of all passengers on board have contracted the virus they say lorna shaddix brought you like this la

test

news about an hour ago and sarah jarvis is here of course our resident GP with dr. Hillary usually and listen, we're going to pick up Lana where we know he's posted something on Facebook, right?

He has talked a lot about what has been going on. We heard that they were very down yesterday and now this result today. about that, you're right, a lot of people have been following David Abel's post on Facebook, he's been posting a lot of videos and a lot of comments about what's going on and he seemed pretty

positive

at the start of this 12 day quarantine period which is so long as they have been in quarantine so far for 14 days really very pleased with their cabin he was posting pictures from the balcony but this

morning

first of all we saw a post from him saying there was going to be a quiet time he was It showed that it was positive. and going to the hospital soon is a blessing to all but in the last hour now a second facebook post has been re-posted which seems to question the findings on the positive ping test result he says frankly i think this is a scam , they will not take us to a hospital, but a shelter which is where they send the members waiting there quarantine no phone no Wi-Fi and no medical facilities I am really smelling a very big rat what you are saying do you think they are being silenced well that seems be the implication and many things the people who have been writing underneath about it of course we have no way of knowing exactly what although it might have some space in the hospital I mean they have thousands of people doesn't it in the hospital? getting taken off the

ship

somehow, that seems to be the implication here, even though we know they didn't want them taken to Japan, they had already said in a day, we say, is it the Japanese authorities who took them? off or that seems to be the correct implication, actually yes, so conspiracy theories aside, let's assume for the moment that they are not and that they have contracted the virus together, they may not have symptoms at this point since that a lot of people are how could they have understood since they've basically been locked in their cabin, allowed out on their balcony to get some fresh air, but haven't been in contact with other passengers, well, what? how could they have caught him? no but of course people have been bringing them food so you can bring food to people in a mask and frankly the masks aren't terribly effective they really aren't the very well designed ones in the hospital that you get and They cover everything are pretty

good

. by staying well they can reduce the chance of transmitting it but won't prevent you from getting it especially once they get wet, however even if people brought the masks what has been going on in kitchens so we don't?

Do you know how long the

coronavirus

survives once you cough or sneeze? I was going to ask you that because they tell us to wash our hands very, very still, the most important thing would be safe to say that the virus lives on your skin, let's say for two. hours is entirely possible and from what we've seen of other viruses this virus doesn't seem to be that lethal so let's put it in perspective we've had 1777 deaths out of about 70 thousand people at least getting it while there that it's about one in 50 people, isn't it because viruses in general as a way of life don't like to kill us actually because that means we can't pass them on?

No, but don't forget we have had examples like SARS you want to tell people, yeah, probably two out of five people who got it have died, so what do you think this is? I think the answer is unless you have other medical issues and we know that I think David has diabetes, so it will lower his immune system, older people who have other health conditions are more likely to have more severe symptoms, for so if we look at the symptoms, ninety-eight percent of people will have a fever if you don't. I don't have a fever, it's very different from what you have.

Some people have not had any symptoms, but about three quarters of people have a cough. Half of people have difficulty breathing. The more serious things, like pneumonia, have mostly affected people. I have severe underlying medical issues and not as this monitor from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was saying although we are going to start thinking about bringing people back from this

cruise

ship where David and Sally were captured now they won't be bringing them back Back with the British. in fact, but we know that the Foreign Office is still working on organizing a flight in the US.

It has already repatriated more than 300 of its citizens who were on board that ship and the Foreign Office issued a statement this morning saying that given the conditions on board which may be an allusion to the fact that this virus seems to continue to spread we are working to arrange a return flight to the UK for British citizens aboard the Diamond Princess as soon as possible on our staff by contacting British nationals late for David and Sally now just a quick one to the dock we leave you what's your what's your money on do you think it's going to come to this country and spread the way it did in China i think it's going to come to this country country I think the chances are it probably won't spread the way it did in China but if we're on top of it there are much better quarantines it's not going to be you know everyone was shocked and certainly no one can be covering it up it had gone very long way and the reason why most of these viruses start in countries like china is not a coincidence these two big ones started in china because people live in very close contact with each other with animals