AP journalists in Japan and Cambodia provided extensive coverage of a pair of cruise ships, including exclusive video of both scenes. Sopheng Cheang used the Bambuser app to get the first live video out of the Westerdam arriving in Cambodia, 10 hours before any other agency was able to match it. Meanwhile, Foster Klug interviewed a couple quarantined on the Diamond Princess in Yokohama, Japan, establishing a rapport that led to AP receiving video they shot on the ship and throughout their journey to the U.S. Customers relied on the coverage of both ships, which required round-the-clock coverage by the Tokyo bureau and other staffers throughout Asia.
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Exclusive coverage of 2 cruise ships gripped by COVID-19 fears
Buses carrying passengers from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship leave a port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Feb. 17, 2020. A group of Americans were cutting short a 14-day quarantine on the Diamond Princess to be whisked back to America. But they faced another quarantine period at a U.S. military facility to confirm they don't have COVID-19.
AP Photo / Jae C. Hong