A Japanese high court has overturned a lower court ruling that found a nurse guilty of giving a doughnut to an elderly woman who later died after choking on it.

The 60-year-old practical nurse works at a special nursing care home for the elderly in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan.

All 199 evacuees quarantined following their return from China on the second government chartered flight have been confirmed to be free of the new coronavirus. They returned home on Friday.

The people had been evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak, on January 30. At the time, they showed no symptoms and tested negative for the virus. As a precaution, they were placed under quarantine at facilities in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo.