当初の判断は「好ましかった」　ＷＨＯ、日本のクルーズ船対応で

　【ベルリン時事】世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）で緊急事態への対応を統括するマイク・ライアン氏は１８日にジュネーブで行った記者会見で、日本がクルーズ船「ダイヤモンド・プリンセス」の乗客乗員を船内にとどめて検疫を行う判断を下したことについて、即座に世界中に解放するよりは「当時としては明らかに好ましかった」と述べた。
　その後、船内で感染が拡大したことを踏まえ、日本は「現実に合わせて（対応を）修正」し、他国と協力して下船準備を始めたとも指摘した。一方で「事後的に是非を判定するのは容易だ」と述べ、状況が動く中で適切な判断をしていくことの難しさを認めた。（2020/02/19-18:58）

World Health Organization Executive Director Michael Ryan has backed Japan's initial moves related to the quarantining of a cruise ship that has been hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus originating in China.
   The Japanese government's decision to quarantine passengers and crew members of the Diamond Princess on-board "was much more preferable, obviously at the time, than...having everyone disperse around the world," Ryan, who is in charge of emergency responses, said at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday. The government then adjusted to the reality of the spreading new coronavirus and took necessary measures with other countries to evacuate people from the ship, he noted.
   Ryan, however, suggested that "it is very easy, in retrospect, to make judgments on...decisions made at a certain point," citing the difficulty of making the right decision in an ever-changing situation.
   The ship is currently quarantined at the port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.
   The Diamond Princess was quarantined when it arrived in Naha in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa on Feb. 1. but the quarantine clearance was canceled after a Hong Kong passenger who disembarked from the ship in late January was found to have been infected with the virus.