Diamond Princess had traces of coronavirus 17 days after ship emptied: CDC
Researchers who studied the ship, which was docked in Japan on Feb. 5 and placed under quarantine for more than two weeks after several passengers and crew contracted COVID-19, determined that there were still traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA present inside cabins 17 days after the 3,711 passengers and crew were removed.
The cabins had not yet been sanitized at that point, and CDC researchers said it was too early to draw conclusions from the data.
