Coronavirus updates: Quarantine ends on cruise ship as death toll passes 2,000
• Almost 450 passengers allowed to leave quarantined cruise ship in Japan• American passenger still on cruise ship unclear happens next• Second coronavirus death recorded in Hong Kong• Adidas, Puma warn of coronavirus hit to China businessTwo people diagnosed with the coronavirus known as COVID-19 and connected to a quarantined cruise ship have died, Japan’s health minister said in parliament Thursday.
It reported that one of the people who died was an 87-year-old man and the other was an 84-year-old woman, and that they died Thursday. The man was taken off the cruise ship on Feb. 11 and the woman was taken off on Feb. 12 after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to NHK.The number of diagnosed cases from the Diamond Princess had grown as rounds of testing have been completed, with at least 621 reported as of Wednesday local time.
More than 2,100 people have died of the coronavirus illness known as COVID-19 in mainland China, which is where the outbreak began and where it is centered. The vast majority of cases have been reported in mainland China, according to World Health Organization numbers.Health officials in China's coronavirus-stricken Hubei province reported an additional 108 deaths linked to the illness known as COVID-19, bringing the total deaths on the mainland to more than 2,110.
Previously suspected cases in Hubei that showed signs of pneumonia in chest X-rays but did not test positive for genetic traces of the coronavirus were counted as confirmed cases. On Wednesday, China's health authority removed that category of clinically diagnosed cases from its criteria for confirmed cases. The health authority said on Wednesday that nucleic acid tests to identify the presence of the virus were preferred.
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