Ewa Beach woman shares experience on quarantined cruise ship struck by coronavirus outbreak

The Ewa Beach couple on a cruise ship in Japan struck by an outbreak of the coronavirus has finally left the ship and reached the United States, but their troubles aren’t over yet.

Debbie Pagan, 58, and her husband Eric, 64, were two of at least six Hawaii residents and nearly 400 U.S. citizens who began a two-week cruise on Jan. 20 from Yokohama aboard the Diamond Princess.

But on Feb. 4, instead of returning to Yokohama and leaving the ship, the 3,700 passengers and crew members began a 14-day quarantine after learning someone aboard tested positive for the coronavirus, or COVID-19.

And on Saturday evening, four days before the quarantine was set to end, Pagan and the hundreds of other U.S. citizens learned that they would have to begin another two-week quarantine on a military base in either California or Texas.

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[dericksuapaia]

K no come back Hawaii and ruin everything lmao

[magic-]

If you see all this issue going on why would you go and travel makes absolutely no sense on any level you chose to dive in the flame so now you deal with the burns