David and Sally first of all how are you
doing we're doing okay thank you yeah I
mean we spoke to you the other day a
couple of days ago and you seemed very
very calm the number of cases diagnosed
on the ship has now risen significantly
do you still feel calm do you feel more
worried now well perhaps a little bit
more anxious that there are so many but
also today somebody who we've been quite
close to during the cruise was taken to
hospital so that's a bit more concerning
as the information changed at all that
you're getting so we're up to date with
exactly what you've just told us 61 have
been taken from the ship today the
changes that we've had on board are that
we've been given a digital thermometer
every passenger has their own and we're
requested to take our temperatures every
four hours if the temperature exceeds 37
point 5 we have to phone the ship's
medical team and then they're a swab
will be taken from our throat that will
go off for dine analysis and that could
then lead to being taken off the ship
and put into a medical facility and
Sally you were saying there that someone
who had become friendly with on the
cruise has been taken to hospital have
you heard how they're doing well he was
actually taken off without any symptoms
they did a throat swab on him he had no
visible symptoms and they're wondering
whether he might have been a carrier but
you know he's still contracted it from
the ship but he just hasn't come out
with it and we've been having dinner
with him and his wife every evening for
the last two weeks you were you still
seemed to be remaining very calm and I'm
just wondering how you're managing to do
that given that the numbers have gone up
and also they're clearly stepping up
precautions by issuing you
with these digital thermometers how are
you managing to stay so calm well what
can we do we can't go anywhere
we've just got to accept it I mean it
there's no point in sitting down and
crying about it we just got to get on
with it you know there's two choices
we can either crash and crumble or we
can face it chin on and we've chosen to
face it you know we have to accept
everything that's going to come and deal
with it in the best possible way that we
can we know we're in good hands the
shipper taking care of us if we have to
go to a medical facility I wish it was
in the UK I really do but if we do have
to go to one in Japan they'll take care
of us and how are you managing day to
day in terms of the food situation in
terms of how you're keeping yourselves
busy well the food is is brilliant I
mean we have three meals a day usually
delivered around 7:00 a.m. breakfast
lunch about 12:30 and then dinner about
6:00 in the evening so we've got we're
not hungry plenty of food water we're
getting at least 2 liters of water each
per day plus teas and coffees and stuff
as well so we're not going short of that
and they're loading new videos onto the
screen every day and we have a large
screen TV in the bedroom you know or in
the cabin I should say so they're
catering for us on that side of it
they're also giving us puzzles
crosswords Sudoku pack of playing cards
everyday they're trying to give as much
entertainment value to passengers as
they can and are some of the passengers
starting to worry now or are they all
like you sort of taking on the chin as
you put it no I there is a lot of
concern onboard now I don't think this
panic people are are concerned yeah
there's anxiety
have any of the British authorities been
in touch with any of you no no they
haven't but again this is where Princess
cruise lines have been terrific they
have published a sheet for every country
of the telephone numbers of the offices
in the UK for us that we should contact
but the what do they call it's the home
of the Foreign Office have issued an
announcement this afternoon to say
unless conditions change we will not
need to go into quarantine back in the
UK if we've done the 14 days here that
will be sufficient but they have put a
safeguarding clause in unless things
change I think it's something we've had
to face up to we know that our
quarantine date has been extended so we
would do 14 days from when it started
it's now been extended to 19 no not 19
day until February the 19th is when we
are due to disembark now there's only
one day extras me so how close do you
think you are to coming home oh wow that
is a question I would love to answer
have you got your crystal ball handy I
I'm not a negative person but I have to
be realistic and it won't surprise me if
there are more announcements tomorrow to
say that there are infected people on
board I hope I am wrong if I'm wrong
then I think we will be heading back to
the UK on February the 19th if I'm
correct in that assumption the days it
will be extended by another 24 hours I
think the fact that they've they've all
had their thermometers today we could
find that people of panicked and it's
gone up one notch and we'll phone
somebody and then they'll do something
but I don't know
you