Pressure grows on UK to rescue citizens from coronavirus-stricken ship

Passengers on Diamond Princess liner ‘disillusioned’ with government over lack of action•All the day ’s developmentsPressure is growing on the British government to airlift citizens stranded on a cruise ship stricken by coronavirus, after a Chinese tourist in France became thefirst person to die from the disease in Europe.The US announced late on Friday that it would be evacuating more than 400 nationals from the quarantined ship, which has had nearly 300 confirmed coronavirus cases, and British travellers called on their government to do the same.Continue reading...
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