{"id":63649,"date":"2020-02-17T06:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63649"},"modified":"2020-02-17T06:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T06:19:35","slug":"american-couple-refuses-leave-coronavirus-stricken-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63649","title":{"rendered":"Why American couple refuses to leave coronavirus-stricken cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American lawyer and his wife are refusing to evacuate the\u00a0coronavirus-stricken cruise ship\u00a0docked off the coast of Japan \u2014 because they say they feel safer aboard.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Smith, who has been\u00a0quarantined on the Diamond Princess\u00a0with his wife Katherine since early February, said he plans to stay put as the US on Sunday began to remove hundreds of\u00a0 American passengers from the boat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredibly disappointed that the U.S. Government has decided to throw a monkey wrench into the quarantine we have maintained here on board the Diamond Princess,\u201d\u00a0Smith tweeted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Smith said he\u2019s skeptical about the government\u2019s plan to evacuate citizens on two flights to the US, since some of the travelers could be sick.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuated passengers were set to be screened for symptoms before boarding the planes back home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we stay on board through next week, we will be tested and will likely come up negative,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the U.S. Government instead wants to take us off without testing, fly us back to the U.S. with a bunch of other untested people, and then stick us in 2 more weeks of quarantine? How does that make any sense at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US embassy in Japan sent a letter to American passengers and crew members Sunday morning announcing the flights, adding they were the \u201conly opportunity for eligible passengers to fly to the United States until March 4, 2020, at the earliest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u00a0told USA Today\u00a0that passengers were prompted to RSVP to the US embassy to tell them whether they\u2019d be leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer, who has been posting daily updates about life on the locked-down ship, tweeted that American health personnel had visited his room \u201cuntil they learned, to their apparent surprise, that we had chosen to stay, at which point they moved on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The evacuated passengers will be screened by the CDC, and anyone exhibiting symptoms won\u2019t be allowed on the flights, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who make the flight will likely be taken to Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif., or to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where they will undergo mandatory testing and further quarantine.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American lawyer and his wife are refusing to evacuate the\u00a0coronavirus-stricken cruise ship\u00a0docked off the coast of Japan \u2014 because they say they feel safer aboard. 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