Tokyo: Japan’s Health Minister Katsunobu Kato announced that new 70 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, harboured at Yokohama.
The total number of people infected with coronavirus has reached 355.
The cruise ship, owned by Carnival Corp (CCL.N) and carrying some 3,700 passengers and crew, has been quarantined in Yokohama since February 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it traveled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
