Plane lands with Canadians evacuated from Japan virus ship

A chartered plane carrying more than 200 Canians evacuated from coronavirus-quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship landed at a military base in Ontario province early Friday.

All passengers who arrived at Canian Forces Base Trenton, 200 kilometers (120 miles) southwest of Ottawa, h tested negative for COVID-19, CBC reported.

y will however be quarantined for a furr 14 days at Nav Centre in Cornwall, Ontario, a hotel and conference center which has previously been used by government as an emergency shelter, national brocaster said.

Diamond Princess, which is moored in Yokohama near Tokyo, is biggest coronavirus cluster outside Chinese epicenter, with more than 600 cases confirmed among 3,700 passengers and crew.

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ship was quarantined on February 5 when a passenger who left in Hong Kong was found infected with virus.

Passengers were confined to cabins except for brief trips on deck wearing masks and gloves, when y were told to keep ir distance from ors. Hundreds of passengers have since been allowed to disembark this week after testing negative for dely virus.

Of 246 Canians originally on board, 47 h contracted coronavirus, CBC said, but y were t on evacuation flight. It was third flight to evacuate Canians from coronavirus quarantine, after two earlier ones from outbreak epicenter in Wuhan, China.

More than 200 Canians who were quarantined at CFB Trenton after arriving on first plane from Wuhan on February 7 and a separate US charter flight are due to be released from base Friday, CTV said. 

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