Six more people on a cruise ship off Japan are found to have the new coronavirus, the Japanese government says today, bringing the number who have tested positive on board to 70.
Test results are still coming in as passengers on the Diamond Princess face a two-week quarantine against the the virus, which has killed hundreds of people, most of them in China.
Japanese authorities had earlier tested 279 people on board the cruise ship, finding 64 of them were infected with the coronavirus.
The Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama port on February 9, 2020. (Stringer/JIJI Press/AFP)
Aside from infections on board the ship, Japan has reported 26 cases.
The Diamond Princess was quarantined after a passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong last month was diagnosed with the virus.
There were more than 3,700 passengers and crew on the ship when it arrived off Japan’s coast last week. Dozens have been taken to hospital and around 3,600 people, many of them elderly, are still on board.
Eight to 14 Israelis are believed to be on the ship. The Foreign Ministry said last week that none have been diagnosed with the virus.
— with AFP
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