China reports another sharp rise in virus infections as the death toll nears 1,400 while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus fears disembark in Cambodia
A woman wearing a mask is seen on a street in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, on February 13, 2020.
The National Health Commission said 121 more people had died and there were 5,090 new confirmed cases. The new figures give no indication the outbreak is nearing a peak, said Adam Kamradt-Scott, an infectious diseases expert at the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney.
Japan is one of the worst affected of more than two dozen countries and territories outside mainland China that have seen hundreds of infections from the flu-like sickness. A cruise liner quarantined off a Japanese port has more than 200 people confirmed with the disease. Authorities have said they will allow some elderly people to disembark on Friday.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen greeted the passengers with handshakes and bouquets of roses as they stepped off the ship and boarded a waiting bus.
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