Author: And the Cat
Q: He Qi Cat, the Japanese cruise ship "Diamond Princess" has heard of a serious group infection? How is Japan handled?
A: Correct your mistake first. The Diamond Princess is not Japanese. It is a luxury cruise ship of British shipping, and the management company is an American company. The cruise ship, made in Japan, was in operation in 2004 and has been sailing safely for nearly 16 years.
The manufacturer has nothing to do with the outbreak in operation because the manufacturer is making a luxury cruise, not a negative-pressure isolation ward. If you take a German bus in the UK and the passengers get the flu, can the passengers find Germany and say you are responsible?
In the event of an outbreak of an epidemic occurring on a ship that may spread the epidemic in the country where it is docked, the calling State shall, in accordance with the international health treaties, have the right to refuse its berthing. At the same time, Japan`s domestic law can also refuse to enter Hong Kong.
Diamond Princess Cruise
Q: So Japan has the right to refuse to enter Yokohama? Then why did Japan take it in?
A: Yes, Japan has the right to refuse an outbreak on board the ship a few days before it enters Yokohama Port. In addition to running a company (American company), the country of origin of the ship is Britain. The first thing to be responsible for this time is the cruise company, followed by the respective countries of nationality. Japan has no obligation under international or domestic law to accept its entry into Hong Kong. However, for humanitarian reasons, and because nearly half of the passengers were Japanese, Japan allowed it to enter Hong Kong.
In fact, after the outbreak, other ships have been repeatedly refused to dock, no access to the situation is one or two. The Westerdam, for example, was refused entry by the five countries (the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, TW, US, Guam) and spent two weeks on the ocean before finally getting Cambodia`s consent. Interestingly, Japan`s mainstream media labelled the five-nation rejected Vitedan as "a cruise ship rejected by Japan to enter Hong Kong" rather than "a cruise ship denied to Hong Kong by the five countries ". This is the reason why the Japanese have refused to enter Hong Kong by refusing to enter Hong Kong by the other countries/regions after having accepted the" Princess Diamond "cruise, and they really can`t accept the second huge cruise ship (2257 people on board the ship, five Japanese). I haven`t seen it yet, who has seen a reminder.
On February 13, a newsletter reported that the Japanese refused access to Hong Kong`s cruise ship, the Westerdam, arrived in Cambodia after two weeks of wandering
After receiving the arrival of the "princess diamond" cruise ship in japan, there is also a possible practice of allowing only japanese passengers to disembark, and other guests are not allowed to disembark. According to japan`s current law, japan has no right to refuse the return of its national citizen, but the right to deny entry to foreigners who may have an infectious disease. When cruise companies were unable to protect their passengers, the country of nationality ultimately assumed the responsibility of their nationals for the care of guarante, i.e., the japanese were responsible to the japanese, and the passengers of other countries had to send transportation to pick them up. South Korea, for example, has recently denied almost all foreign ships access to its ports, offering only a little food. No one blames South Korea for this.
Q: Why did Japan delay the arrival of the "Princess Diamond" cruise ship?
A: The Princess Diamond found a group infection on board a few days before entering Yokohama Harbor. In this case, if not quarantined, all put down the boat, the city of yokohama and tokyo and even the entire japanese state, is a devastating disaster. No country dares to drop its boat without quarantine. Of course, if there are large enough isolation facilities, Japan will certainly take all its passengers to the isolation facilities. But no country in the world is immediately ready to take in isolation facilities of more than 3,000 people. It is difficult for any country to arrange for such a large number of people to be diverted into different isolation facilities, the means of transport and personnel needed for transportation, and the responses in different languages. If something goes wrong, it`s a huge risk for Japanese nationals. Therefore, the luxury cruise itself, which is well protected by independent space, is the most reasonable isolation in the short term. In fact, such a big hot potato, no one is willing to accept, only Japan for humanitarian reasons to accept it.
Moreover, it is now understood that the infected person may be falsely negative, so even if it is temporarily negative, it will still take at least two weeks to put the ship down. The vast majority of countries that are not allowed to enter during the quarantine period are those who may be infected.
Q: Is the central air conditioning of the cruise ship the cause of the spread of the infection?
A: The operating company of the cruise ship clearly denies this. If central air conditioning is the reason for the spread of the infection, then not one by one quarantine, so infectious virus, the vast majority of people on board should be infected, but it is not. The lack of timely cessation of the use of public space was the cause of the expansion of the infection, and the use of public space had ceased at the time of entry into Yokohama.
Q: So Japan doesn`t rush to quarantine all passengers yet?
Q: The detection rod is not enough. The new virus isn`t from Japan, which has seen the first of its kind to a cruise ship for more than half a month. A half-month production of a new virus-detecting rod is impossible in any country. If other countries can do so, it only takes 1-2 days for the air test stick to assist yokohama port for quarantine, but no country has provided such assistance to japan. Japan`s current testing rods are the production level for laboratory testing, and the number is very limited. It is also difficult for other countries to mass produce in the short term.
For example, since february 14th, the angry cat itself has a fever and cough symptoms, because japan has been unable to explain the route of infection infected people, and the possibility that the gas cat`s rail transit has infected people with the car is not zero, so people like me will want to be tested. I called the health centers in the Ministry of Health and Labor and in the local areas, and asked to be tested, and were told that if there was no direct contact with Wuhan/Hubei people, there was no test stick.
That is to say, the number of testing rods in japan is very limited now, and we have to give unreasonable conditions for our land-based citizens to obtain them (without direct contact with wuhan/hubei people, who have already been infected). That`s why japan`s first new crown pneumonia patient didn`t get the test results until after he died. Tokyo and Chiba already have a lot of people who want to be tested as soon as possible, but have been rejected because they don`t have enough rods.
Now japanese government is trying to increase the production of testing rods, but when the testing rods can be mass-produced, the isolation of the "princess diamond" cruise should be long gone.
In the absence of any certainty that passengers disembarked with little risk of increased infection, giving priority to the use of test sticks throughout Japan was the only thing that Japan could do under existing medical conditions and the most humane approach to national treatment for all passengers.
Japan`s current policy is that those with negative results and no health concerns will leave the ship at the end of quarantine on the 19th, with passengers over the age of 80 giving priority to disembarking.
Q: Isn`t the infection spreading day by day when people get off the boat? So narrow space, it is said that the food is often delayed, eat not good, passengers complain a lot.
A: It`s true that serious group infections have occurred, but have they only occurred after entering Yokohama Harbor? I don`t think anyone can answer that.
Because group infection was detected before entering Yokohama port. The hong kong man, thought to be a super-communicator on board, was diagnosed after disembarking in hong kong on january 25th. The common denominator among most of the first passengers diagnosed was that they were close contacts of the hong kong man and did not rule out any other source of infection. In other words, before January 25, the cruise ship had had a group infection, but the scale of the infection was not known in time.
From being infected to actually being diagnosed, it will take longer in any country right now. Did the increase in the number of infected persons occur after the introduction of strict isolation measures after entering the Yokohama port, or did the number of infected persons actually have been very many, only the lack of testing rods and the actual detection of positive need for a long time? It`s a difficult question to answer. Because many patients were tested negative in the early stages, only to find many positive cases later. In other words, there is no evidence that a larger number of people are now diagnosed every day, which is the result of an extended infection only after entering the port of Yokohama.
Because the cruise ship was British and operated by American companies, Japan had no jurisdiction or guidance over it prior to the port of Yokohama, and its command and control over it was limited after its entry into Yokohama. Apart from having the right to quarantine and decide whether to allow passengers to disembark, the service on board the ship was windowless or windowless. Japan had no right to arrange or intervene in the room. Even if Japan provided humanitarian supplies for the necessary assistance, Japan did not interfere in its daily services. Therefore, the timing of the meal, eat well, these japanese can be extremely small range. On the contrary, if Japan blindly directs and dictates the day-to-day services on board, Japan is likely to face claims from cruise companies and/or passengers later on.
To make it easier for passengers on cruise ships to contact the outside world, to provide them with the material and spiritual help they need and free medical advice in a timely manner, Japan sent passengers 2000 Apple phones free of charge to ensure that each room had at least one.
https://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/202002140000685.html
A: What do you think of the angry cat like this?
A: There are private enterprises giving aid but mainly Japanese government and local government. The donation of private enterprises is that they don`t say it`s easy for others to know. Japanese reports have focused on donations from japanese government and local government in japan, all large-scale gold and silver masks and protective clothing. Three groups of evacuation aircraft with a large number of relief supplies, this will not be said.
After the outbreak, japanese market masks were quickly snapped up by chinese tourists and chinese, and japanese stores have run out of masks since early february. But local governments are still donating masks. Hyogo, for example, donated 1 million and 8000 masks to guangdong and hainan provinces on february 12th. Local governments are using emergency reserves, which has reached a painful point for local citizens:" We can`t buy a mask if it`s extra. "
The "Diamond Princess" cruise passenger has such a serious infection, the beginning of the infection occurred before entering the territorial sea of Japan," Little Japan would rather a ship of people are infected to death "? All of the passengers who had symptoms on board had disembarked and taken to hospitals in Japan to be treated because the elderly were the majority of passengers, and there were serious cases among the elderly. As of February 16,19 passengers between the ages of 60 and 80 were severely ill, of which 1 were negative with other diseases and 15 with other underlying diseases.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200216-00050145-yom-soci
As of February 16th, there had not been a single passenger, but the Japanese on the Japanese land had a disease. A quarantine officer from Yokohama Port boarded the ship for quarantine. A quarantine officer had been infected and a firefighter responsible for transporting passengers to an ambulance had been infected. You can say that Japan isn`t alert enough to the virus, but China and WHO`s initial claim is that there`s no evidence of human transmissions! Japan confirmed the possibility of human transmission among infected japanese only on january 28th. At first, Japan listened to Chinese officials and WHO as controllable.
The country and the keyboardists who have not done anything for their passengers have paid such an effort and price for a cruise ship that has no obligation to help. I can only say that the people who are watching, especially the country at the root of the disaster, are embarrassed to say that they can only wait for God to punish.
Q: How do countries now plan to help their nationals on the Diamond Princess? What are their respective attitudes?
A: Fewer than half of the passengers aboard the Diamond Princess are Japanese. As for the nationality of the passengers, it is the PostShip Operating Company that has the exact information. Oddly enough, it`s been two weeks since february 3rd, but the shipping companies, captains and others haven`t been interviewed and haven`t provided information to the public. This is very unusual in the eyes of the Japanese, if it is a Japanese company, has long been guilty of offering public information that can be made public. The country of nationality, the United Kingdom, has so far shown no indication of any course of assistance.
According to sporadic reports from the media, we can roughly learn that there are about 428 Americans, about 330 Hong Kong, about 255 Canadians, about 40 British, about 24 Russian, about 20 TW, about 15 Israelis, about 14 Koreans and about 13 New Zealanders on board.
Japan`s new cases of coronary pneumonia, regardless of nationality, are treated at the expense of japanese governmentment. The new crown pneumonia patients on the "Princess Diamond" have been fully hospitalized and all of them are paid by the Japanese. Only the United States is now grateful for Japan`s rescue. Most other countries are complaining about Japan.
The best of them is Russia. Russia has already shown that, once it discovers that the foreign-born pneumoniae in russia has been expelled immediately, they have actually expelled the patient. Although japan has done the same to russian passengers, its only attitude towards japan is to accuse it of doing poorly. The only official Japanese retort was that the Chief Cabinet Secretary calmly responded:" We have been responding properly. "
https://www.sankei.com/politics/news/200213/plt2002130019-n1.html
Israel did well, too, saying to Japan on February 12:" You immediately put my people down the boat and are responsible for moving elsewhere! "It was as if he were giving orders to his men. Perhaps Israel has always been in a state of war with its neighbours, and its mental state has always been this tight and hostile.
Japanese netizens responded to this: "Why are you so powerful that you can`t pick up people quickly?"
It is now clear that it is the United States and Hong Kong that are sending planes.
Before february 8th the u.s. considered transferring the americans on board to the u.s. through the base of the u.s. troops stationed in japan, immediately after consultation with japan, said:" we let japan arrange. ""The United States has thrown all its citizens to Japan. The u.s. has since come under pressure from domestic opinion and complaints from american passengers, and decided on february 15th to send a plane home to citizen. U.S. action quickly,16 22:00, the plane has arrived in Tokyo Haneda Airport, an hour after the Self-Defense Force bus disembarked the U.S. passengers to Haneda Airport. However, the symptoms of the United States did not get on the plane, but Japan responsible for the treatment.
Two U.S. charter flights to Haneda Airport in Tokyo on February 16
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200216-00000114-kyodonews-soci
South Korea has also done well, rejecting all foreign ships with an outbreak and, according to Kim, a former South Korean ship expert and former director of the ACLN and a representative of the Jeju International Convention Center," It is incomprehensible that the infected person disembarking in Japan should certainly be a Japanese infected person, and Japan is not a Japanese infected person. "
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200210-00000010-cnippou-kr
However, it is not Japan`s decision to count the number of infected persons in Japan, but WHO`s regulation. Although the number of people who have been diagnosed on a cruise ship is not included in the number of infected people in Japan, it is Japan that is actually responsible for the treatment.
South Korea is also very considerate to its passengers, sending some spicy cabbage to the boat, the South Korean boat is a solid happiness of spicy cabbage. An interview with a south korean passenger happily said:" embassy brought spicy cabbage, we ate all on the same day, the meal is not eat." "Instead of expressing a word of gratitude for Japan`s efforts to help them, South Koreans displayed a Korean flag on the balcony, full of gratitude and joy. However, south korea did not initially plan to send a plane to pick up its 14 citizens, because the number of infected people will undoubtedly count on south korea.
South Korean couple in Japan welcome spicy cabbage in quarantine on the Diamond Princess
Since 11 of the 14 koreans on board live in japan, according to south koreans," these people are not related to south korea, they live in japan." But south koreans were a little embarrassed after the u.s. decided to fly americans back to the u.s. on february 15th, mr. frakdo said he would consider sending a plane.
One thing these countries are willing to send planes to pick up people has in common is that symptomatic people will not take them but leave them to japan for treatment. Those who do need to be quarantined for another 14 days when they return home.
Because of this re-segregation of 14 days, some american passengers have already expressed their dissatisfaction:" since the return of 14 days of isolation, it is better to stay on board, because the ship`s quarantine date is about to expire." If you want to pick it up, you should pick it up earlier. Since we want to isolate again, then we in the ship`s patience and efforts, not all wasted. "Passengers in this position expressed their reluctance to disembark and fly back to the United States. In that case, they would return to the United States after the quarantine period, and they would not have to go through a second quarantine as long as the United States had not classified Japan as an epidemic area.
