Police in the Australian state of New South Wales removed electronic logs from the Carnival Corp-owned cruiseship Ruby Princess as part of their criminal investigation into the coronavirus-linked deaths of 15 out of 2,700 passengers who disembarked from the ship in Sydney on 19 March.

At least 15 fatalities and more than 600 cases have been linked to the 113,600-gt, 2008-built cruiseship, which is now considered as being the epicentre of Australia’s coronavirus outbreak.