'It was a big shock. And they said she had one hour to get ready and she would be in the hospital for three or four days and then return to the ship.'
Photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images Kent and Rebecca Frasure, an American couple from the Portland, Oregon, area, were two of the 3,700 passengers aboard the now-infamous cruise ship Diamond Princess. The beginning of the trip, which ended in a quarantine lockdown in the Japanese port of Yokohama, was enjoyable and unremarkable for the two, as the ship docked in various Asian cities. But on February 3, while heading back to Yokohama, the ship’s captain announced they were speeding up.
Coming here, the virus was just starting to become news. I don’t know if it had gotten outside of China at that point. My wife actually hadn’t heard about it at all. On the ship we were getting regular news, so we had watched the numbers really rise on the ship. So there’s talk on the ship — like, it was concerning, but nobody had any sense that we were at risk at all. It wasn’t until Okinawa that we really started seeing any indication that there might be a risk.
Is everybody wearing masks up there? And I understand the ship keeps furnishing guests with different masks. They were telling me the ship provided WiFi. They’re even upping the bandwidth. They said there’s these videos they’re supplying, like to do tai chi.
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