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40 Americans on cruise ship in Japan have been infected with coronavirus: official
WASHINGTON, Feb 16, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – A senior US health official said Sunday that more than 40 Americans on a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have been infected with the deadly coronavirus.
“Forty of them have gotten infected,” Anthony Fauci, a senior official at the National Institutes for Health said on CBS’ Face the Nation show. “They are not going to go anywhere. They’re going to be in hospitals in Japan.”
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