21 aboard Grand Princess cruise ship test positive for coronavirus
by Anita Chabria, Melody Gutierrez, Noam N. Levey and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Mar 07, 2020
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Twenty-one people on the Grand Princess off the San Francisco coast have tested positive for coronavirus, Vice President Mike Pence said Friday, an announcement that angered and deflated many passengers on the cruise ship.
Pence said the federal government is working with the state of California to bring the cruise ship into a noncommercial port over the weekend and quarantine those aboard as necessary. Those testing positive included 19 crew and two passengers.
"All passengers will be tested," the vice president said several
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