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Cruise ship struck by coronavirus pulls into California port

by Associated Press
| March 9, 2020 12:30 PM

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The cruise ship forced to idle for days off the coast of California because of a cluster of novel coronavirus cases aboard arrived in port Monday as state and U.S. officials prepared to transfer its thousands of passengers to military bases for quarantine or return them to their home countries.

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