About 200 Australians face another 14 days of isolation after more than two weeks in quarantine on the ship in Japan

A horror holiday is close to being over for the hundreds of Australians stuck on a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan.

About 200 Australians will be evacuated on a Qantas flight to a former workers’ site near Darwin on Wednesday to begin a two-week isolation period to prevent the potential spread of the virus.

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