7 Feb 2020

Coronavirus: Life aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess ship

From Checkpoint, 6:09 pm on 7 February 2020

Food delivered outside your door, fresh towels if you're lucky, but no clean sheets, and only short bursts of fresh air.

For nearly 4,000 people aboard the Diamond Princess, this is no cruise.

Conditions aboard the vessel, dubbed the "prison ship," are not exactly fit for a king.

The cruise ship has been quarantined in Yokohama, and more than 60 passengers on-board have tested positive for the Novel coronavirus.

But so far only a few hundred of the 3,700 passengers have been tested - all of them restricted to their tiny cabins.

But not all cabins are created equal.

Matthew Smith, a passenger aboard the Princess Diamond, says some people are doing it tougher than others.