Hundreds of Cruise Ship Passengers Stuck in Cambodia After Coronavirus Case Confirmed

Hundreds of passengers from a cruise ship are stuck in Cambodia while officials test them for a coronavirus after an elderly woman who had disembarked was found to have the virus. U.S. State Department officials said that 200 Americans remain in Cambodia, waiting to be cleared for travel, including 92 who remain on board the Holland America Line ship the Westerdam. Cambodian officials asked those in hotels in the country not to leave their rooms while further testing is done. According to the cruise line, the first batch of 406 tests were negative, and cleared guests were allowed to travel home. On Monday, Holland America Line said Cambodian Health officials have begun testing the 255 guests and 747 crew that are still on the ship. The cruise line said it expects that it will be several days before the remaining passengers are allowed to leave the boat. “At this time, no other guests or crew on board or at the hotel have reported any symptoms of the illness,” Holland America Line said. Hundreds of passengers left the ship late last week, including an 83-year-old American woman, who was stopped at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia after going through thermal temperature scanners, and later tested positive for the coronavirus, officially named called COVID-19, according to the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. Her 85-year-old husband, who is also an American citizen, has been tested twice for the virus, but the results were negative. Japan, ...
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