The World Health Organization says it is working closely with Japanese authorities and medical officers of the Diamond Princess to respond to coronavirus infections.
More than 450 people on board the cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port have been confirmed to have the virus.
Japan's health ministry says 99 more people on board the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The ministry said on Monday that of the newly found virus carriers, 85 are passengers and 14 are crewmembers.
Japan's health ministry says eight of the people confirmed infected with the new coronavirus onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship are in serious condition. The ship is quarantined at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo.
The ministry says two other people are also in serious condition. One of them has not been confirmed to be infected, while the other is waiting for the result of a virus test.
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.
Japan's health ministry says 39 more people on a quarantined cruise ship have tested positive for the new coronavirus. That brings the total number of cases on the vessel to 174.
A quarantine officer from the health ministry has also been infected. The man, who is in his 50s, had been checking body temperatures and collecting questionnaires on the ship early last week.
Japan's health ministry says another 39 people on board a cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port and a quarantine official are confirmed to have the new corona virus. The update brings the total found on the Diamond Princess to 174 cases.
The ministry says virus tests for 53 more people came back positive for 29 passengers and 10 crewmembers.
Officials at Japan's health ministry say 39 more people have been found infected with the new coronavirus on the cruise ship Diamond Princess at the port of Yokohama.
This brings the total number of passengers and crew infected on the vessel to 174.
Authorities in Japan say 39 new cases of coronavirus have been identified on the cruise ship at Yokohama Port.
A total of 174 cases have now been found on the Diamond Princess. A Japanese health ministry official who was conducting an inspection of the ship is infected with the virus.
A team of infectious disease experts began examining a quarantined cruise ship at Yokohama Port on Tuesday.
As of Tuesday evening, 135 cases of the new coronavirus had been found on the Diamond Princess. About 3,600 passengers and crewmembers remain on board the vessel.
A group of infectious disease experts is to survey a cruise ship hit by a coronavirus outbreak to prevent further spreading of the disease.
As of Monday, more than 130 people on board the Diamond Princess docked at Yokohama Port tested positive for the new coronavirus and have been taken to hospital.
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's Health Ministry says around 60 new cases of coronavirus infection have been identified on a cruise ship in Yokohama. That nearly doubles the total number of cases discovered on the vessel to around 130.
The number of people killed by the coronavirus outbreak in China has overtaken the death toll from the 2003 SARS epidemic.
More than 900 people have died in mainland China and about 40,000 people have been infected. Across the world, there are 380 cases, including dozens found on a quarantined cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, docked in Yokohama, Japan.