The ship was placed in quarantine when it docked at Hong Kong port on Wednesday after eight Chinese passengers were diagnosed with the new virus.
Port official Leung Yiu-hon said today that tests carried out on more than 1,800 passengers had been completed ahead of schedule and were all negative.
The quarantine of the ship, which has more than 1,800 passengers, mostly from Hong Kong, will end and everyone on board will be able to leave, announced the official quoted by the AP agency.
Some passengers who showed symptoms were negative, said Leung Yiu-hon, explaining that there was no need to test all passengers because they had not had contact with the eight who were infected.
On board this ship were seven people with Portuguese passports, according to the Portuguese consul general in Macau and Hong Kong,
Last Wednesday, a team of Hong Kong health officials boarded the World Dream to conduct medical inspections of 1,800 passengers and 1,800 crew members after the ship docked at Kai Tak terminal in Kowloon, which it arrived after being refused by Taiwan authorities.
The number of deaths from coronavirus today increased to 811, exceeding deaths from SARS in 2002-2003, with a total of cases reaching 37,198, according to official data.
SARS – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has caused 774 deaths worldwide.
Today in the early hours the authorities announced they had recorded 89 deaths in the previous 24 hours due to the 2019-nCoV virus, with an epicenter in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province.
In addition to the mainland of China and the Chinese regions of Macau and Hong Kong, there are other confirmed cases of infection in more than 20 countries.
On January 30, the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency situation, which implies the adoption of preventive and coordinating measures worldwide.
Infected people can transmit the disease during the incubation period, which varies between one day and two weeks, without the virus being detected.
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