Scramble To Track 3,000 Passengers From Cruise Ship After American Woman Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Scramble To Track 3,000 Passengers From Cruise Ship After American Woman Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Topline: Cambodia and Malaysia are working to trace thousands of passengers from the Holland America Line after one passenger tested positive for the coronavirus while 400 Americans quarantined on a cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, have been flown home.. The MS Westerdam was turned away from several ports in Asia last week over fears that its passengers had been exposed to the coronavirus, despite the ship's operator, Holland America Line, saying there were no cases of the pneumonia-like illness onboard.. U.S. and Australian governments are flying their citizens off the cruise ship, where at least 369 people were infected and taken to hospital... Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines are among countries to have turned away cruise ships, while one of the world's biggest operators, Royal Caribbean, last week took the preemptive measure of cancelling 18 cruises..