Some U.S. passengers evacuated from a cruise ship on which hundreds were diagnosed with coronavirus were to be flown Sunday to Travis Air Force Base.
, officials said. Other passengers will continue to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, the CDC said in a news release.
“We understand this is frustrating and an adjustment, but these measures are consistent with the careful policies we have instituted to limit the potential spread of the disease,” the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said in a letter sent to cruise ship passengers Saturday. Travis is one of three military bases in California that the Defense Department has designated as a site to house returning coronavirus evacuees. The others are Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego County, where 232 people are currently quarantined, and March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County. About 195 people
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