Day 17: The Germ Boats Take Flight

The New York Post reports 99 new cases aboard Germ Boat #2, the Diamond Princess, for a total of 454. The jump seems to be due to testing of asymptomatic passengers for the sake of evacuation; some American cases were confirmed during the evac flight(s). (The food tweeter remained aboard and tweets on.)

The AP reports more details about Germ Boat #4, the MS Westerdam:

News over the weekend that an 83-year-old American woman who was on the ship and flew from Cambodia to Malaysia was found to be carrying the virus froze further movement of the passengers and crew of the MS Westerdam. Some are now in hotels in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, while others are still aboard the ship.

The American woman was among several hundred passengers who were flown out of Cambodia on Friday and Saturday. According to authorities in Malaysia, 143 continued their flights home from that country, while the woman and her 84-year-old husband, who was diagnosed with pneumonia, remained behind for treatment.

P.S. People's Daily (China) reports the death of Liu Zhiming, director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital and the first hospital director to die of COVID-19.