Coronavirus: 2 passengers from quarantined cruise ship dead

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Diamond princess, which was docked off in Yokohama, Japan.

New Delhi (NVI): Two passengers who were onboard the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, have died due to the coronavirus infection, the Japanese health ministry reported today.

The two elderly patients were hospitalised after they were diagnosed with the deadly infection that has claimed more than 2,000 lives so far. Both were in their eighties.
The ship had a total of 621 confirmed cases of the virus, the most in any single location outside of China.

Meanwhile, South Korea has also reported 31 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 82.

The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu, Kwon Young-jin, today urged its 2.5 million people to refrain from going outside as cases of a new virus spike, according to media reports.

China’s National Health Commission reported at least 114 new deaths from the coronavirus outbreak as of the end of Wednesday, bringing the death toll to at least 2,118 nationwide.

Around 108 of the new fatalities were from Hubei Province, the epicentre of the epidemic.

The national health commission also reported 394 new confirmed cases, significantly lower than the 1,749 cases reported nationwide the previous day.

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