Coronavirus updates-6,000 tourists confined on a cruise ship after Chinese couple fall sick

According to the Approximately 7,000 passengers and crew are confined on a cruise ship in Italy among anxieties two Chinese who might be infected with the coronavirus.

A husband and wife from China have been placed in quarantine on the Costa Smerelda after the couple came down with a fever and breathing complications.

The two have been examined by doctors and undergone inspections to discover if they have the SARS-like virus.
If they are carrying the killer virus, there are alarms that it could have already reached to hundreds of others on board the vessel, which docked at a port in Civitavecchia, north-west of Rome, on Thursday with about 6,000 passengers and 1,000 crew.

The Chinese couple arrived at Milan’s Malpensa Airport on Saturday and travelled about 100 miles to the port city of Savona, where they boarded the Smerelda the same day.

No one was being allowed off the ship while medical checks were carried out to see if the pair had the potentially deadly coronavirus, the company spokesman said.