An ocean liner that previously carried two passengers who contracted the coronavirus was barred on Wednesday from returning to its home port of San Francisco from a voyage to Hawaii after at least 20 people aboard fell ill. California Governor Gavin Newsom said the cruise ship Grand Princess would remain
SAN FRANCISCO - An ocean liner that previously carried two passengers who contracted the coronavirus was barred on Wednesday from returning to its home port of San Francisco from a voyage to Hawaii after at least 20 people aboard fell ill.
"So we're holding that ship, which is thousands of passengers, off the coast, and will be conducting those tests and getting those tests back," Newsom said. One, an elderly man from Placer County near Sacramento with underlying health conditions, died this week, the first documented coronavirus fatality in California. The other, from the Bay area, was described by Newsom as gravely sick.
Depending on the outcome of the tests, it might be directed to an arrival point other than San Francisco. He said California health authorities had confirmed 53 cases, the most of any single U.S. state, from the respiratory disease that has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide.
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