More than 300 U.S. citizens, including 14 infected with the coronavirus, were in the United States and under quarantine after spending the previous two weeks stuck on a cruise ship
- More than 300 U.S. citizens, including 14 infected with the coronavirus, were in the United States and under quarantine on Monday after spending the previous two weeks stuck on a cruise ship with the largest cluster of cases outside China.
At Joint Base San Antonio in Texas, a ground crew dressed in anti-contamination suits climbed the stairs to the plane on the tarmac in the predawn fog on Monday. Passengers later descended wearing surgical masks.The passengers will remain under quarantine another 14 days. Before the arrival of the sickened passengers from the cruise, U.S. officials had reported 15 cases in seven states, most of them travelers who had returned from China but also three who had been evacuated on previous, U.S.-chartered planes repatriating Americans.
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