NORTH BAY, CA — Officials at Travis Air Force Base confirmed a flight carrying hundreds more coronavirus-quarantined Americans landed late Sunday night at the military installation near Fairfield in Solano County but the total number of those now under 14-day quarantine at the North Bay military installation was not immediately available Tuesday morning. Their transport to Travis AFB was announced Saturday by the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said in the announcement that 400 passengers aboard a Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japanese waters wanted to return to the United States; therefore, the 400 passengers would be flown on U.S.-chartered planes to two U.S. military facilities: Travis AFB and Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas. Fourteen of the 400 cruise-ship passengers tested positive for the deadly 2019 Novel Coronavirus, according to a joint statement Monday from the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the repatriation of American passengers from the Diamond Princess. UPDATE: Among the Americans evacuated from the ship is Napa County’s first confirmed case of COVID-19. “During the evacuation process, after passengers had disembarked the ship and initiated transport to the airport, U.S. officials received notice that… Read full this story
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