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The Japanese government has found new technologies to defend itself against the coronavirus. It provides passengers with 2,000 stranded iPhone on board a cruise ship called Diamond Cruises called Princess Cruises in Yokohama Port, Japan.
It came after almost 350 cases of Coronavirus were confirmed on a ship off the coast of Japan.
The total number of passengers was 2,666 and 1,045 crew members. They were all isolated for over a week.
The two-week trip was originally scheduled to end 10 days ago, but all passengers and crew were booked in quarantine and detained on the plane after Japanese health officials discovered several HIV cases after the ship was towed at the port.
Passengers on the plane tried to alert the local media to the shortage of drugs on board and received 2,000 iPhones, one for each cabin, with permission from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Affairs. Be and SoftBank.
The phones were distributed with medical applications distributed by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare. This allowed people to order medicines, organize medical consultations with doctors and obtain information from health authorities.
IPhone is required with SoftBank services because phones outside Japan cannot access the app and the chat function cannot be used to communicate with doctors.