I can't say that Japanese health authorities are stupid, but they may have made a terrible mistake. They let passengers who are not exhibiting coronavirus 2019-nCoV symptoms off the ship and into their general population. Given that people can be infected and contagious for 14 days without showing symptoms, this doesn't make sense to me.
Perhaps they didn't have the facilities to provide for a 14-day quarantine of that number of people, but it could lead to an entirely new round of infections within Japan and then on the many flights out of Japan as people return to their home countries, or on to other destinations.
In my humble opinion, it is a Yikes! situation. Prove me wrong — please!
