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(Update) COVID-19 Victims of Diamond Princess Ship Remembered, 5 Yrs On

(Update) COVID-19 Victims of Diamond Princess Ship Remembered, 5 Yrs On

Passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the time of the February 2020 onboard outbreak of COVID-19 lay flowers on Monday morning at Daikoku Pier of Yokohama Port in Tsurumi Ward in the city of Yokohama, where the ship was moored.
Passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the time of the February 2020 onboard outbreak of COVID-19 lay flowers on Monday morning at Daikoku Pier of Yokohama Port in Tsurumi Ward in the city of Yokohama, where the ship was moored.

   Tokyo, Feb. 3 (Jiji Press)--People laid flowers Monday at Yokohama Port in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, to pray for those who died after contracting COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which arrived at the port five years ago.
   "We will not let the deaths of 14 people go to waste," said Yasuhito Hirasawa, 69, co-head of a group formed by those who were on the ship at that time.
   "We hope that isolation on board will never happen again," he said, calling for building a system that allows passengers to disembark for treatment and quarantine in the event of an infectious disease outbreak on a ship.
   The group has claimed that the Japanese government's examination of the cluster infections was inadequate, seeking a re-investigation in order not to repeat the tragedy.
   Cluster infections on the ship broke out in February 2020. Of a total of 3,711 passengers and crew members, 712 became infected with the novel coronavirus and 14 died from the infection, including a person who passed away after returning home on a chartered plane.

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