(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) World Panorama: Coronavirus: Cruise ships become “Floating Petri Dishes”

Topic: Coronavirus: Cruise ships become “floating petri dishes”

Episode: 412

Topic Description:

The largest coronavirus outbreak outside mainland China is not in a country, but on a cruise ship. Diamond Princess is into a lockdown for more than a week. It was scheduled to dock on February 4 but is kept in quarantine off the port of Yokohama in Japan .This after one passenger from Hong Kong was found to be infected with the virus. Now more than 219 people on board the cruise ship including two Indians have tested positive for coronavirus. The coronavirus spread has put focus on cruise ships, which have for years been referred to as "floating Petri dishes"- places ripe for the exchange of germs, and the spreading of illness.