i spoke with journalist michael penn, who o joined us from toko. ked him how expertsts reactd the japanese government's handling of ththis crisis. michael: the japanese government'handling of the issue e has been w widely critid by health h expertrts inside ja, why the opopposition pararties,d more impliciciy by foreieign governmentnts as well. japan has begun to release, , as you mentioned, 500 peoplele so r intoto the generalal population. and the e contention of f the japanesese government is that te 54 peoplple confirmed to h have caught the cororonavirus on boad the ship all had it two weeks ago, when the quarantine began, but most all o other experts a e saying no, a actually, t the coronavirurus has been spreadidg during thehe quarantinee period. if that is the case, thehe japanese govovernment is p proby unwise to be letting people leave the ship at this time. charli: right, not really an effective quarantine if it is spspreading g on board. michael, we have to talk about the 20 olympic games, or coming up in just a matter of m monthsn japan

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let's get more now we are joined by reporter michael penn who is joining us from tokyo so michael tell us the authorities have taken this step to quarantine all of these passengers 4000 of them why did they do this. well i think that they assessed that there may be a especially high risk. of this of the krona virus coming in through these passengers and the reason they would think so is that because on cruise ships you have lots of people packed in close proximity to one another and so if you know that one person had coronavirus and spent several days on the ship they feel that there's a high private probability or a higher likelihood that this could have been spread to other members of the crew or other passengers on the ship and so they're taking this special measure we've heard that the incubation period is around 2 weeks do we know how long these people will have to stay on board the ship. probably not too long. although there's been no official announcement of that it sounds like they're not going to test every single member they're more they're more going to try to track down whi

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