Passengers May Leave Italy Ship; Tests Show No Virus Danger

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People who had been kept aboard a cruise ship owned by Carnival Corp. may disembark either Thursday night or Friday, after tests showed that a passenger who came down with fever and respiratory symptoms didn’t have the new coronavirus.

Carnival’s Italian Costa Crociere unit said passengers can now leave the ship, which had been in lockdown in a port near Rome, though the vessel will not depart for the next leg of its journey until Friday evening.