40 Americans on cruise ship in Japan have been infected with coronavirus: official

Washington (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 Insitutes 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.”