Reuters
Date: February 21, 2020
By:Yimou Lee

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Nineteen Taiwanese citizens arrived back home clad in full protective suits on Friday after spending more than two weeks stuck on a quarantined cruise ship in a Japanese port due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“I have never been this happy before to return to Taiwan…I almost burst into tears the moment the aircraft touched down,” one of the passengers, Sunny Chen, said in a social media post.

The 19 landed on a chartered China Airlines plane at the island’s main airport in Taoyuan, live television channels showed. They were taken by ambulances and will be put into quarantine after further medical checks, the health ministry said.

More than 620 passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise liner have been infected with the coronavirus, the most outside mainland China.    [FULL  STORY]