Chile quarantines 1,300 aboard two cruise ships
Chile has quarantined more than 1,300 people aboard two cruise ships after an elderly Briton aboard one of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry announced Saturday. Both ships are cruising the Chilean fjords in Patagonia. The 85-year-old man showed symptoms of the virus after getting off the Silver Explorer ship in the far southern port of Caleta Tortel, 2,400 kilometers from Santiago. The man was later transferred to a hospital in the city of Coyhaique where he tested positive for the virus. The other ship, the Azmara Pursuit -- with 665 passengers and nearly 400 crew -- had earlier crossed into Chilean waters from the southern Argentine port of Ushuaia. The number of coronavirus cases in Chile reached 61 on Saturday, 18 more than on Friday.
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