passengers were kept here to stop the
spread of Kovan 19 known as the
coronavirus 14 days in quarantine so far
and it seems that hasn't worked
88 more people have tested positive
bringing the total up to 542 infected on
board that's out of about 3700 people on
the ship a rate of around 15 percent and
now a British couple who've been
fighting to get off posted on Facebook
that they've been proved positive David
and Sally Abel have been giving the
world updates often optimistic from
within the walls of their cabin but
their last post showed the reality of
their ongoing confinement today has not
been the best of days as you could
probably tell from my the way I was
behaving this morning and I'm sorry
about that but it's all getting to us
now and it's not just me other
passengers as well it's the not knowing
factor that is the real the real
challenge but some passengers who are
more certain about their fate are the
South Koreans the presidential jet is
being sent for them complete with deep
pain before they go on passengers are
due to get back tomorrow but what are
the British doing the Foreign Office are
being criticized for not acting sooner
but say they're starting to get a flight
to repatriate those still on the diamond
princess a spokesperson said that those
who are still ill will stay in Japan but
those who are virus free will be flown
back to the UK there is still questions
though when will they be flown back to
the UK we're not sure yet where will
they go when they get back here we're
not sure of that either
and also how long will they have to be
quarantined for again just how effective
was the quarantine on board the diamond
princess infections expert Natalie
McDermott has serious concerns
we simply have no idea what has happened
on board that has resulted in these new
infections so we have to treat the
people coming off the boat as if they
are coming from an affected region like
we did when we transported the people
from Wuhan Bank what's happening in
Yokohama is causing other cruise liners
to change course some of canceled
cruises in Asia until the beginning of
next year and ascending ships to other
parts of the world for British
passengers on the diamond princess their
long cruise voyage continues in China
itself as many as a hundred and fifty
million people more than twice the
population of Britain and now living in
unprecedented lockdown while half of
them are forced to live with some kind
of restricted travel like only being
allowed to leave home for a couple of
hours at a time
China's President Xi Jinping Tobias
Johnson and a phone call earlier today
that the country was making visible
progress in keeping the outbreak
contained but how effective are these
draconian measures his parka Bryan this
is footage taken by a Chinese citizen
journalist inside one of the main
hospitals in Wuhan the epicenter of the
corona virus outbreak we have seen this
footage before but it now has new
significance first of all the person who
filmed it Fang bin is believed to have
been arrested Wow
he's one of four people this month
reported to have been detained for
criticizing how the government in China
has responded to the outbreak the other
reason this footage has new significance
one of the people on the front line of
the outbreak the director of Wu Chang
Hospital
Leo char mang passed away in the last 24
hours
as a result of becoming infected the
second high-profile doctor to die in
China as a result of the virus these are
some of the individual tragedies at a
press conference today the Chinese
National Health Commission released the
latest country wide figures Jo children
only one batty and usually Olli she
don't remember me
Yura ETA
she was really ladybug all children
Billy Shiva RJ super sorry Lily
she used to be only near Chennai right
HRT officials went on to say that the
most recent record death toll from the
virus in China is 1868 in different
parts of China there are different
restrictions on freedom of movement and
social gatherings for example this
footage purports to show officials in hi
she raiding a games room in someone's
home
this footage claims to show officials
destroying the produce of a vendor who
didn't have permission to be
transporting goods Yellen is 25 has been
confined to her family's apartment in
Wuhan for the last 20 days this
afternoon gave us the tour my family can
play badminton sometimes in the living
room we can at least do something fun
today the New York Times published
research suggesting that about 10% of
the Chinese population face restrictions
on how often they can leave home that
equates to a hundred and fifty million
people it does get a bit crazy
I think I'm staying in this space for so
long Dallin spoke to us about the
confusion among some people in her block
when it comes to restrictions on
movement there can be very broad
policies like nobody's allowed to go to
the community but what about people who
are disabled what about people who need
medicines and when such notice came out
we all worried about did they think
about these people at home she
acknowledges that officials in her
neighborhood are doing their best but it
hurts stories of other communities where
this was not the case the point when it
comes to managing the outbreak people's
experiences on the ground in China
varies the country is not responding to
this crisis with uniform efficiency