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21 people on stranded US cruise ship test positive for coronavirus
Twenty-one people, including 19 crew members and two passengers, aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Vice President Mike Pence announced that the ship will be brought to a non-commercial dock where all 3,533 passengers and crew will be tested.
The Grand Princess had been stranded off the coast of San Francisco since Wednesday after two individuals from a previous voyage contracted the virus, one of whom died.
The Philippines' Department of Health reported that there were over 500 Filipinos on board the cruise ship, and the Philippine government is prepared to repatriate them.
Pence stated that a large number of the infected were crew members who had likely been exposed during two previous voyages, and he anticipates they will be quarantined on the ship.
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