‘I Was So Scared’: Infectious Disease Doctor’s Day on Japan’s Coronavirus Cruise Ship

TOKYO—A Kobe College doctor touched off a furor with a firsthand account of a virus-stricken cruise ship in which he stated the protections from infection were so weak he was terrified he would get sick himself.

Kentaro Iwata, who manufactured the allegations in widely circulated YouTube movies immediately after paying out Tuesday aboard the Diamond Princess, informed The Wall Street Journal in an job interview that the crew ought to be removed as before long as feasible because of the danger of catching the novel coronavirus on the ship.

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