About 7,000 passengers and crew are trapped on a cruise ship in Italy amid fears two holidaymakers have coronavirus.
A husband and wife, reportedly from Macau, have been put in isolation on the Costa Smerelda, which might have Britons and other world citizens on board, after the couple came down with a fever and breathing problems.
The vessel is currently being held at the Port of Civitavecchia, 35 miles north of Rome, after a 54-year-old woman from Macau came down with a fever and went to the ship’s hospital.
The couple have been placed in solitary confinement as doctors from the Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases examined them to find out if they have the SARS-like virus, which has killed at least 170 people in China and infected thousands of others.
Test results are due this afternoon.
The other passengers are now barred from leaving the ship until they come back.
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