Will soon evacuate 138 Indians on cruise ship, says embassy

A total of 138 Indians, including 132 crew and 6 passengers, were among the 3,711 people on board the ship, Diamond Princess, that arrived at the Japanese coast earlier this month.

The total number of people infected with Covid-19 on the ship rose to 355 on Sunday. Two more Indians on board also tested positive for the novel coronavirus, thus the number of Indians infected with virus on the ship rose to five. The infected Indians have been sent to medical facilities for further treatment and quarantine. Out of them, three are Indians. The Indian Embassy in a tweet said that the final tests for the Covid-19 on the ship would begin on February 17 and continue over multiple days.

The embassy also said that the condition of the three Inidan nationals who had earlier tested Covid-19 positive was improving. The embassy said it was making efforts for early de-boarding of all the Indians from the ship after the end of the quarantine period and was in discussions with the Japanese government and the ship management company for the disembarkation modalities and welfare of Indians.

All the 406 people, housed at an ITBP quarantine facility here after being brought back from Wuhan, have tested negative for novel Coronavirus in the latest sample examination and will be discharged in a phased manner beginning Monday, officials said. The final samples of all the people quarantined at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) facility here were collected by a team of doctors on Friday. The group includes seven Maldives citizens. There are seven children, including an infant, in the group as well.