page_title: COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships
section_title: Diamond Princess
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships / Ships with confirmed cases on board / Diamond Princess
caption_attribution_description: English: Diamond Princess cruising at night, Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic spread to a number of cruise ships, with the nature of such ships—including crowded semi-enclosed areas, increased exposure to new environments, and limited medical resources—contributing to the heightened risk and rapid spread of the disease.
  The British-registered Diamond Princess was the first cruise ship to have a major outbreak on board, with the ship quarantined at Yokohama from 4 February 2020 for approximately one month. Over 700 people became infected, and 14 people died. At the time, the ship accounted for over half the reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 outside of mainland China.
  Governments and ports responded by preventing many cruise ships from docking and advising people to avoid travelling on cruise ships. Similarly, many cruise lines suspended their operations to mitigate the spread of the pandemic.
  As of 2 May 2020, over 40 cruise ships have had confirmed positive cases of coronavirus on board. The last cruise ship with passengers aboard during the first wave of the pandemic, Artania, docked at its home port with its last eight passengers on 8 June 2020.
context_section_description: On 4 February 2020, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced that Diamond Princess, which had docked at Yokohama the previous day, was quarantined at sea with 10 positive cases on board.
  Diamond Princess had originally departed from Yokohama on 20 January 2020 for a roundtrip cruise. On 20 February 2020, the World Health Organization stated that the ship accounted for more than half of the reported infections around the world outside of China.
caption: Diamond Princess in 2014
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