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SINGAPORE – Five Singaporeans quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, have been allowed to disembark from the ship.
They have decided to remain in Japan for 14 days before returning to Singapore, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Friday (Feb 21).
“The Singaporeans will be quarantined if they return to Singapore within 14 days from the date of their disembarkation as an additional precautionary measure according to our current public health protocol,” said an MFA spokesman.
The MFA said that the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo will continue to provide help to the five Singaporeans.
The ministry also thanked the Japanese government for its help rendered to the Singaporeans during the quarantine.
More than 600 passengers have tested positive for the Covid-19 disease. This makes the ship, which has been docked off the coast of Japan since Feb 3, the largest single cluster outside of China.
The World Health Organisation has said that the cases on the Diamond Princess are “cases on an international conveyance” and should not count in Japan’s total.
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