A total of 105 people were killed by the coronavirus in mainland China on Sunday, the Chinese National Health Commission has said.
American citizens board a US-chartered evacuation plane on February 17, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
The novel coronavirus outbreak, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, continues to spread worldwide. Japan now has the highest number of cases outside China, with at least 412 total cases -- 356 of which are on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked in quarantine in Yokohama.The coronavirus has killed 1,775 people and infected 71,399 globally, with the vast majority of those figures in mainland China -- and within China, concentrated mostly in Hubei province, where the outbreak began.
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