Japan's health ministry says another 67 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed on the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
This brings the number of passengers and crew found to be infected with the virus to 285.
Health experts are studying new cases of the coronavirus across Japan. They say the total number of infections in the country has climbed to 262.
Authorities said on Saturday a second doctor, his wife and an inpatient at a hospital in Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan all tested positive.
Japan saw several new cases of coronavirus infection reported on Friday, leading health officials to try and establish just how they contracted the virus. The latest cases bring the number of infected people in Japan to 259, including 218 from a cruise ship.
Two people are residents of Tokyo.
Japan's health ministry says another 44 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed on the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
The people include one crew member. Twenty-nine of them are Japanese.
Japan's health ministry says another 44 cases of new coronavirus infection have been confirmed on the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
This brings the number of passengers and crew members found to have been infected with the virus to 218.
Sixty-six more people on board a quarantined cruise ship at Yokohama Port have been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus. That brings the total number of cases on the vessel to 136.
People with confirmed infections will be hospitalized, as were cases discovered earlier.
Japan has confirmed three more cases of infection with the new coronavirus, raising the total domestic tally to 14.
The latest confirmations came on Thursday. The three people include a Chinese student who is in her 20s and lives in the western prefecture of Kyoto, a male foreign national in his 50s, who lives in the western prefecture of Mie, and a tour conductor who is in her 30s and resides in the Chinese province of Hunan.
Japan's Health Ministry says three evacuees have tested positive for the coronavirus, a day after returning to Tokyo.
More than 200 passengers were on their government-chartered flight on Wednesday. All were sent to medical institutions to undergo tests. The ministry says two of the infected patients had no symptoms. It's the first time in Japan the virus has been detected in people without symptoms.
TOKYO — Yamaha has warned people not to try and squeeze inside musical instrument cases after reports former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn fled Japan concealed inside in one. "We won't mention the reason, but there have been many tweets about climbing inside large musical instrument cases. A warning after any unfortunate accident would be too late, so we ask everyone not to try it," the Japanese company said in a post on its twitter account on Jan. 11. Ghosn, who is accused of hiding earnings, transferring investment losses to Nissan and misappropriating company funds, escaped from Japan at the end of December for Lebanon. Japanese authorities have vowed to pursue him and have issued an international wanted notice for him and his wife Carole. The former auto executive and fugitive has declined to reveal how he slipped past Japanese airport security, or confirm media reports accomplices smuggled him through a private jet lounge in Kansai Airport in western Japan hidden in large speaker box that was too large to fit through the facility's X-ray scanner. Earlier reports, which Ghosn has dismissed, said he was carried out of his home in Tokyo in a double bass case. Yamaha, which makes instruments and equipment ranging from pianos and double basses to drums, electronics and heavy duty speakers, thanked people in a second tweet for liking its first post, which was retweeted more than 50,000 times. It also reminded followers again that instrument cases are designed for instruments and not people.