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Headline: Coronavirus: Passengers disembark the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan

Caption: A taxi leaves with passengers who have disembarked from the "Diamond Princess", a cruise ship which has been kept in quarantine at the port of Yokohama in Japan, Feb. 19, 2020. Passengers on the novel coronavirus-inflicted Diamond Princess cruise ship started disembarking on Wednesday in Japan's Yokohama Port after a two-week quarantine period. In at least three days, nearly 3,000 people will disembark from the ship which has 542 confirmed cases of the pneumonia-causing virus so far, according to the government. The first group of about 500 mainly elderly passengers who have tested negative for the virus started to get off the ship after finishing final checkups with doctors.

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