Once upon a time in the early days of what became the pandemic on a boat on the other side of the world, people fell ill.

The captain suddenly comes on the tannery and he says to guests, they've had a positive

case of coronavirus on board, they've got to go back to their cabins immediately, and they're

going to have medical tests by Japanese medical personnel.

3,000 passengers suddenly found themselves in shipboard lockdown off the port of Yokohama in Japan.

So day one, 10 cases, the next cases you know by day six 135 cases by day

7 174 cases by day 8 218.

712 people on the ship caught coronavirus and 14 died. For passengers and crew it was the coming

Corona world in microcosm. So what happened to them all on board the Diamond Princess?

You're listening to stories of our times and the Times and the Sunday times.

I'm David Aronovich. Today all at sea with the virus. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

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One thing to say about the people on the cruise, first of all, they love cruises.

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