Diamond Princess is the biggest focus outside of China. About 80% of passengers are over 60 years old. Three have already died
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Even given the lack of places in Japanese reference hospitals, the chance that Adriano will be treated in Portugal will be out of the question (Europeans who returned home on planes chartered by European Union countries were not infected). JN contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out what steps are being taken to get the Portuguese out of the ship as soon as possible, but still has not received an answer.
The “Diamond Princess”, where Adriano has worked as a plumber for five years, was placed under quarantine by the Japanese government on February 5. At the time, it hosted about 3700 people, of which more than 600 were infected. Since last Wednesday, when passengers whose diagnostic tests had been negative began to disembark, 970 have left. On board, there are still about a thousand crew members, including Adriano and four more Portuguese, that the Directorate-General for Health has already confirmed that they are not infected with Covid-19, which does not guarantee that they will not be – questions were raised about the rigor of the protection measures after 23 passengers were allowed to leave without being properly analyzed (one of them was diagnosed three days later).