Duque said there are around 500 Filipino crew members on the MV Grand Princess, the ship that US officials stopped from returning to San Francisco after a passenger on a previous trip died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said they are still verifying details about Grand Princess and authorities have not received any request for Filipinos to be fetched from the cruise ship. The MV Grand Princess is under Princess Cruises, the same company that owns another cruise ship that was quarantined in Yokohama, Japan for COVID-19 outbreak. At least 706 people on that ship in Yokohama were infected and six died, according to the global trracking by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
Why do people go on a cruise ship trip right now when they know there is a coronavirus infection going on? Then they will have to be repatriated and bring the virus to the their countries.
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