A third group of passengers from the virus-stricken cruise ship in Japan will leave the vessel on Friday.
Coronavirus infection has been confirmed in 634 passengers and crewmembers on the Diamond Princess, moored at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo.
Japanese health experts say many passengers onboard a quarantined cruise ship were very likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus before authorities asked them to stay in their cabins.
Officials at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases held a news conference on Thursday. They discussed mass infections on the Diamond Princess, which arrived at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo, on February 3.
Japan's health authorities confirmed seven new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday. That brings the total number of patients outside passengers and crew from the ship to over 90.
Among the new cases, a man in his 80s has tested positive in Kanagawa. He had been staying at a hospital where an elderly woman who died from the virus had received care.
Two people have died who were aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship docked near Tokyo. They had been hospitalized and tested positive last week for the new coronavirus.
Both patients were Japanese. One was an 87-year-old man who had bronchial asthma. The other was an 84-year-old woman. She didn't have any pre-existing conditions. Officials say both had a fever and developed pneumonia.
Two people have died who were aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo. They had been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus.
One was an 87-year-old man who had bronchial asthma. The other was an 84-year-old woman. She didn't have any pre-existing conditions. Both are Japanese.
Japanese government officials say two passengers from the Diamond Princess have died after being infected with the new coronavirus. These are the first confirmed deaths among the people on the cruise ship.
The two passengers are a man and a woman, both in their 80s.
Japan's government plans to reexamine its handling of the mass infection of the new coronavirus aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
About 3,700 passengers and crew members had stayed on the ship, which remains quarantined at a dock in Yokohama.
The second group of the passengers from a virus-stricken cruise ship will leave the vessel on Thursday.
The new coronavirus infection has been confirmed in 621 passengers and crewmembers on the Diamond Princess, moored at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo.
Japanese health experts say the new coronavirus continued to spread on the cruise ship Diamond Princess even after the passengers were told to stay in their cabins as a quarantine measure.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases reported this on its English website on Wednesday.
Another 79 people on a quarantined cruise ship docked in Yokohama, near Tokyo, have tested positive for the coronavirus. That brings the total number of confirmed cases to 621.
The update comes just hours after passengers began disembarking the ship following a two-week quarantine period.
Passengers aboard a cruise ship south of Tokyo have finally started to go home, after spending two weeks in quarantine.
NHK World's Haruka Nouchi reported from Yokohama Port.
Japan's health ministry says about 500 passengers are expected to disembark on Wednesday from a cruise ship that has been quarantined at Yokohama, near Tokyo, because of an onboard outbreak of the new coronavirus.
The ministry says passengers who have tested negative for the virus and show no symptoms will start leaving the Diamond Princess on Wednesday following a 14-day quarantine period.
An expert who examined quarantine measures on a cruise ship at Yokohama Port near Tokyo says keeping passengers and crew on board was appropriate for curbing domestic infections.
Professor Shigeru Sakurai of Iwate Medical University led an expert team from the Japanese Society for Infection Prevention and Control on a two-day inspection on the ship Diamond Princess last week.
Japan's health ministry says 88 more people on board the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess have tested positive for the new coronavirus. Sixty five of them have not developed any symptoms.
The number of infections on the ship anchored at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo, has now risen to 542.