Britons stuck on coronavirus-stricken cruise ship prepare to fly home
(World News UK)

Dozens of Britons who have been trapped on a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan are set to fly home on Friday after the UK government sent a plane to repatriate them. Around 70 people who have been held in quarantine on the Diamond Princess are due to land Boscombe Down Ministry of Defence base near Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the early hours of Saturday morning UK time. The Diamond Princess was carrying more than 3,700 people in early February when 10 passengers were diagnosed with the Covid-19 strain of the disease. Since being quarantined in the port of Yokohama, a total of 621 passengers and crew have been infected, accounting for more than half of all the confirmed...