Thursday, 28 Mar 2024

60 more test positive for coronavirus on Diamond Princess cruise ship

A quarantined cruise ship has 60 more cases of the deadly coronavirus than first feared.

Japan's health minister said there are now 130 confirmed cases on the Diamond Princess.

It is being quarantined in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo, with officials previously saying 70 people had the virus among the 3,711 passengers and crew.

More than 3,600 people are still in a 14-day quarantine on board the ship.

China's coronavirus death toll rose by 97 early on Monday to 908, with the number of confirmed cases on the country's mainland increasing to 40,171.

The increases have dented optimism that disease control measures including the isolation of major cities might be effectively battling the outbreak.

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Some 3,062 new virus cases were reported over the 24 hours until midnight local time on Sunday, which was a 15% increase from Saturday and broke a string of daily declines.

More than 360 cases have been confirmed outside mainland China.

The fatality toll has passed the 774 people believed to have died of Sars, another viral outbreak that originated in China.

And the total confirmed cases of the new virus vastly exceed the 8,098 sickened by Sars.

Asian stock markets slid on Monday following warnings that investor optimism about the disease and its economic impact coming under control might be premature.

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Chinese businesses are reeling from anti-disease measures that have closed shops, restaurants and factories and disrupted travel.

A British man who caught coronavirus in Singapore appears to be linked to at least seven other confirmed cases in England, France and Spain.

Health officials are not confirming a link or giving detail on his relationship to the other people diagnosed with the illness, but he is reported to be a middle-aged British man and is understood to have been the first UK national to contract the disease.

There are now four confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK, with this man having been the third to test positive.

The man is thought to have been diagnosed in Brighton and was transferred to St Thomas' Hospital in London, where there is an infectious diseases unit, on Thursday afternoon.

  • China
  • Coronavirus

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