LATEST: Coronavirus global death toll rises to at least 565 as confirmed cases reach more than 28,000 in mainland China.
That brings the number of people who have tested positive from the Diamond Princess to 20. The ship is quarantined off Yokohama with around 3,700 passengers and crew on board.were discovered in the first batch of testing, and the second 10 were confirmed after 71 more results were available, the health ministry said.
Of the newly confirmed 10, two are Americans — one a woman in her 60s, the other a woman in her 70s, health ministry officials said Thursday. A former guest from Hong Kong had been on the ship and later tested positive, which set off testing for 273 people who either showed symptoms or had close contact with that patient. —Taiwan's health authority banned all international cruise ships from docking at the island from Thursday amid increasing threat of the outbreak.
It came in the wake of the 20 confirmed cases of coronavirus aboard the cruise ship quarantined near Japan. Taiwan's government also said on Thursday it would suspend most visa applications from Hong Kong and Macau starting from Friday.Hong Kong authorities quarantined a cruise ship for a second day on Thursday as they checked thousands of passengers and crew for coronavirus.
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