BREAKING: A cruise ship hit by the coronavirus is headed to the port of Oakland, California, the captain tells passengers.
This photo provided by Michele Smith, shows a deserted lounge area on the Grand Princess cruise ship Friday, March 6, 2020, off the California coast. Scrambling to keep the coronavirus at bay, officials ordered a cruise ship with about 3,500 people aboard to stay back from the California coast until passengers and crew can be tested, after a traveler from its previous voyage died of the disease and at least two others became infected.
After medical screening, California residents who don’t require acute medical care “will go to a federally operated isolation facility within California for testing and isolation,” Smith said. On Friday, Vice President Michael Pence spoke of plans for the people on the Grand Princess cruise ship. Passengers aboard the Grand Princess remained holed up in their rooms Saturday. Some said ship officials only informed them of the confirmed coronavirus cases after they first learned about it from news reports.
The ship was heading from Hawaii to San Francisco when it was held off the California coast Wednesday so 46 people with possible coronavirus symptoms could be tested. On Thursday, a military helicopter crew lowered test kits onto the 951-foot ship by rope and later flew them for analysis at a state lab.
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