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

test

ed

positive

for

coronavirus

. Yes, David Sally Abel, who has been talking to you during your two weeks in quarantine, they just received their

positive

diagnosis and they will. Now they will be taken for observation in Japan, to a hospital there we believe, or to a shelter, we are not quite sure what is happening with them. We'll find out from Laura in a minute. At least 13 percent of all passengers on board have contracted the virus. viruses say Lorna Shaddix brought you this breaking news about an hour ago and Sarah Jarvis is here of course our resident GP with dr.

Hillary generally and listen, just Lana pick up what we know, he put something on Facebook, right? He's been very vocal about what's been going on, we heard that yesterday they were very despondent and now this result today, what have you said about? Well, 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 beginning of this 12 day quarantine period which is as long as they've been in quarantine so far for 14 days.

They are really very satisfied with his cabin. He was posting photos from the balcony, but this

morning

we first saw a post from him saying there would be a quiet moment. It was proven to be positive. and he soon he will go to the hospital. Blessings to all, but in the last hour he republished a second Facebook post that appears to dispute those findings about the positive ping

test

result. He says frankly. I think this is a trap. They won't take us to a hospital, but. a hostel where they send members waiting there in quarantine with no phone or Wi-Fi or medical facilities I am really smelling a very big rat what you are saying, you think they are being silenced well that seems to be the implication and many people who have been writing below about that, of course we have no way of knowing exactly what, although there might be some space in the hospital, I mean, they have thousands of people, aren't they in the hospital? to be taken off the

ship

in some way, that seems to be the implication here, although we know that they did not want to be taken to Japan, they had already said in a day of saying, are the Japanese authorities the ones who took them out? or that seems to be the correct implication, actually yes, so conspiracy theories aside, let's assume for the moment that you are not and that you have contracted the virus together, you may not have symptoms at the moment, like so many people are.

Could they have contracted it since they were basically locked in their cabin? They were allowed to go out to their balcony to get some fresh air but have not been in contact with other passengers. Well, how could they have contracted it? of course people have been bringing them food so you can bring them food with a mask on and frankly the masks aren't very effective, they're not really the ones that are very, very well designed in the hospital and cover everything, They are pretty

good

. By staying up to date, they may reduce your chances of transmitting it, but they won't prevent you from getting it, especially once they get wet.

However, even if people have brought the masks, what has been happening in the kitchens is why we don't do it. Do you know how long the corona virus survives once it has been coughed or sneezed? I was going to ask you that because they tell us to wash our hands very, very still. Most importantly, would it be safe to say that the virus lives on your skin, say for two? hours is completely possible and what we have seen from other viruses, this virus does not seem to be that deadly, so let's put it in perspective, we have had one thousand seven hundred and seventy deaths of at least seventy thousand people who have been

infected

.

While there is about one in 50 people, isn't it because viruses in general, as a way of life, don't like to kill us? In reality, that means we can't stream them. No, but don't forget that we have. There were examples like SARS that you want to tell people, yeah, probably two out of every five people who got it died, so what do you think this is like? I think the answer is, unless you have other medical problems and we know it, I think David has diabetes, so his immune system will be reduced. Older people, people who have other health conditions, are more likely to suffer more severe symptoms.

If we look at the symptoms, ninety-eight percent of people will have a fever otherwise. I don't have a fever, it's very different, some people haven't had any symptoms, but about three quarters of people have a cough, half of people have difficulty breathing and more serious things like pneumonia have mainly affected to the people. We have serious underlying medical problems and not as this Foreign and Commonwealth Office monitor said, although we are going to start looking to bring people back from this

cruise

ship where David and Sally were captured, they are not going to bring them back now. with the British. in fact, but we know that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still working on organizing a flight in the USA that has already repatriated more than 300 of its citizens who were on board that ship and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement this morning saying that given the conditions on board that may be an allusion to the fact that this virus appears to continue to spread.

We are working to arrange a return flight to the UK for British citizens on board Diamond Princess as soon as possible. Our staff will contact British citizens late for David and Sally. just a quick one for the dock we leave you where your money is. Do you think it will reach this country and spread in the same way it spread in China? I think it will come to this country. I think the possibilities are. It probably won't spread like it did in China, but if we stay on top of things, there will be much better quarantines, it won't be.

Everyone has been surprised and, certainly, no one can hide it. A long way and the reason why most of these viruses start in countries like China is that no, it is not a coincidence that these two big ones started in China because people live in very close contact with each other and with animals.