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Italy lets passengers off cruise ship after coronavirus scare

The Costa Crociere liner carrying some 7,000 people is in lockdown at the Italian port of Civitavecchia. [AFP / Filippo MONTEFORTE]

Thousands of stranded tourists were free to disembark from a cruise ship at an Italian port after authorities said two Chinese passengers feared to have the coronavirus tested negative Thursday.

Italy's institute for infectious diseases examined samples taken from a Chinese woman ill with a fever, as well as her travelling companion, and both were negative for coronavirus, the health ministry said.

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