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Thousands Kept on Board Italian Liner Amid Coronavirus Scare
ROME (REUTERS) - SOME 6,000 people are being kept on board an Italian cruise ship as tests are carried out on two Chinese passengers suspected of having caught coronavirus, a spokesman for the Costa Crociere cruise company said on Thursday.
The couple arrived in Italy on Jan. 25 and boarded the ship, the Costa Smeralda, in the port of Savona that same day. They subsequently came down with a fever and are suffering breathing difficulties.
The liner has visited Marseilles in France, and the Spanish ports of Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca this week before docking on Thursday at Civitavecchia, north of Rome.
No one was being allowed off the ship while medical checks were carried out to see if the pair had the potentially deadly coronavirus, the company spokesman said.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-01-30/thousands-kept-on-board-italian-liner-amid-coronavirus-scare
The couple arrived in Italy on Jan. 25 and boarded the ship, the Costa Smeralda, in the port of Savona that same day. They subsequently came down with a fever and are suffering breathing difficulties.
The liner has visited Marseilles in France, and the Spanish ports of Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca this week before docking on Thursday at Civitavecchia, north of Rome.
No one was being allowed off the ship while medical checks were carried out to see if the pair had the potentially deadly coronavirus, the company spokesman said.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-01-30/thousands-kept-on-board-italian-liner-amid-coronavirus-scare
Bummer for a few thousand people - and we know how things spread on ships. You'd have thought that by Jan 25th, they would have been keeping a closer eye on people coming from China.
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Sorry, I know this is deadly serious.
...although both are very good. I still recall buying "Private Revolution" on cassette on a Friday, only to have all my cassettes stolen from my car that same weekend. 
*Checks calendar* - that was 34 years ago. 
the maniacs are back in the wheelhouse 
