Irish Examiner View: Cruise passengers held in quarantine

It is not necessary to have an over-active, tossing-in-bed imagination to conclude that conditions, and the atmosphere, aboard the cruise liner off Japan where at least 61 of the 3,700 people on board have contacted coronavirus is grim and is likely to become even more so.

The cruise ship Diamond Princess has been under a two-week quarantine since arriving in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Monday.