When the
Diamond Princess at one timeβon day nine
after the 3,700-odd passengers and crew started their two-week
quarantineβbecame the worldβs hot spot, when it had more corona cases than every nation except China.
How many billion dollars would the cruise sector be losing worldwide, and how many million jobs in the global tourism industry would be lost, since Covid-π’ came to
the world attention, when most countries refused to let the passengers
disembark?