New Delhi (NVI): All of the 406 people quarantined at the ITBP facility in Delhi after being evacuated earlier this month from coronavirus-hit Wuhan, have been discharged, Indo-Tibetan Border Police said.
In another update, relieved passengers, who were aboard a coronavirus-wracked cruise ship in Japan , began leaving after testing negative for the disease.
The Diamond Princess has proved a fertile breeding ground for the virus with at least 542 positive cases, and was docked off in Yokohama since February 4, 2020.
Japan faced mounting criticism for its quarantine arrangements as the passengers dispersed.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong recorded its second death caused by the new coronavirus on Wednesday, media reports stated.
The number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China rose by 136, pushing the nationwide death toll to 2,004 as of the end of Tuesday, the country’s National Health Commission reported.
At least 132 of the fatalities were from Hubei Province, the epicentre of the epidemic. Nationwide, there had been a further 1,749 new confirmed cases of which 1,693 were from Hubei, bringing the total number of infections across the country to 74,185.
