COVID-19 pandemic on Diamond Princess

COVID-19 pandemic on board Diamond Princess
Diamond Princess, off Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan, December 2019
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Pacific Ocean
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Diamond Princess
Arrival date	5 February 2020
Confirmed cases	712
Deaths	7 to 14

The Diamond Princess is a British-registered luxury cruise ship that is operated by Princess Cruises, a holiday company based in the United States and Bermuda. In February 2020, during a cruise of the Western Pacific, cases of COVID-19 were detected on board. The vessel was quarantined off Japan for two weeks, after which all remaining passengers and crew were evacuated. Of the 3,711 people on board, 712 became infected with the virus – 567 of 2,666 passengers, and 145 of 1,045 crew. Figures for total deaths vary from early to later assessments, and because of difficulties in establishing causation. As many as 14 are reported to have died from the virus, all of them older passengers – an overall mortality rate for those infected of 2%.^[1][2]