[Pearls Before Swine]

I believe that an area is deemed cleared of a disease once two incubation periods have passed without a new case.

If that's true, the passengers on the Diamond Princess (the cruise ship docked/impounded in Japan) are in for a very long "cruise" to nowhere.

[exDemMom]

If that's true, the passengers on the Diamond Princess (the cruise ship docked/impounded in Japan) are in for a very long "cruise" to nowhere.

Yep, that is really unfortunate for those passengers. They were expecting a nice vacation, and instead, this happens.

Luckily, cruise ships are familiar with measures to control norovirus spread, since it affects cruise ships so often. Many of those same measures will be effective against this coronavirus.