BAYONNE, New Jersey — Four passengers were taken to a hospital Friday after their cruise ship arrived in New Jersey for evaluation for the coronavirus that has sickened more than 20,000 and killed nearly 500, mostly in China.
The Royal Caribbean Anthem of the Seas docked in Bayonne with a number of passengers who were quarantined due to coronavirus concerns.
Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement that personnel with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention boarded the ship and screened 27 passengers who had recently traveled from mainland China. Murphy said 23 were cleared and four were being evaluated at University Hospital in Newark.
The CDC said two of those hospitalized had traveled to China recently and were displaying respiratory symptoms. The other two are members of the same family who aren’t ill but are being evaluated as a precaution.
Right now paramedics are removing people from the cruise ship on stretchers and taking them away in ambulances #abc7NY pic.twitter.com/Az4vGVOKBN
— Derick Waller (@wallerABC7) February 7, 2020
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