What is Diamond Princess (ship)?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Diamond Princess (ship, 2004) - cropped.jpg|right|200px]] '''''Diamond Princess''''' is a British-registered [[cruise ship]] owned and operated by [[Princess Cruises]]. She began operation in March 2004 and mainly cruises in [[Asia]] during the [[Northern Hemisphere|northern hemisphere]] summer and [[Australia]] during the [[southern hemisphere]] summer. ''Diamond Princess'' was built in [[Nagasaki, Japan]], by [[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries|Mitsubishi Industries]]. There have been two known outbreaks of infectious disease on the ship&nbsp;– an outbreak of [[gastroenteritis]] caused by [[norovirus]] in 2016 and an [[COVID-19 pandemic|outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus]] in 2020.<ref name=CDC>{{cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=William |title=CDC says coronavirus RNA found in Princess Cruise ship cabins up to 17 days after passengers left |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/cdc-coronavirus-survived-in-princess-cruise-cabins-up-to-17-days-after-passengers-left.html |access-date=19 April 2020 |work=CNBC |date=28 March 2020}}</ref> At least 712 out of the 3,711 passengers and crew were infected,<ref name=CDC/> and fourteen have died.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare |title=横浜港で検疫を行ったクルーズ船に関連した患者の死亡について (About death of patient associated with cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama Port) |url=https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_10870.html |language=ja |date=14 April 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:COVID-19 pandemic]] [[Category:Cruise ships]] {{transport-stub}}