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Gene Campbell, left, watches through his window as he talks on the phone with his son Charlie at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., Friday, March 6, 2020. Charlie and his mother Dorothy came to visit Gene Friday as he is isolated in the facility that has been the epicenter of the outbreak of the the COVID-19 coronavirus. Charlie later told reporters that his father, who had not yet been tested, was showing symptoms of the virus and would be taken to a hospital. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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21 positive for coronavirus on cruise ship off California
March 6, 2020 8:58 p.m.

21 positive for coronavirus on cruise ship off California

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast tested positive for the new coronavirus and 19 of them are crew members, Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday, amid evidence the vessel was the breeding ground for a deadly cluster of more than 10 cases during its previous voyage.