The German Public Broadcaster DW has a short video[1] covering this, including some of Kentaro Iwata's video statement.<p>The mention that the Japanese government is allowing it's citizens to leave and use public transit seems like a very risky and foolhardy move.<p>While I'm certainly no expert, and I'd definitely hate to be stuck on that ship - I think Japan could surely have set up some kind of field isolation area in the last few weeks and get passengers off and isolated using proper quarantine protocols.
The statement by Kentaro Iwata makes it clear that nobody with a background in infectious diseases was involved in setting up proper quarantine procedures onboard the ship.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPpAsRJJ14E" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPpAsRJJ14E</a>
If the tests are as unreliable as has been reported (and a lot of rubbish gets reported) then those released passengers travelling around Japan seem like a bit of a risk.
Effective crisis management of this nature requires rehearsal and drilling, even if just an administrative / tabletop exercise. The chaos described is a classic symptom of not doing so.
If anyone's interested this is a good breakdown of the cases so far, by region and country: <a href="https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/" rel="nofollow">https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...</a>
A Japanese infectious disease specialist who visited the quarantined Diamond Princess decried "chaotic" and "scary" conditions on the cruise liner that gave the coronavirus more opportunity to spread.
Can someone fix this headline? ‘... cruise ship Japan” reads like it is a cruise ship called “Japan” rather then the full headline “... cruise ship Japan quarantined”