The Coronavirus has affected 88 people on the Cruise Diamond Princess. According to the information given by the Japanese Ministry of Health regarding this matter on Tuesday, with these new figures, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus on the ship has now increased to 542. There are a total of 3,711 people on this ship, of which 138 are Indians. Indians include 132 crew members and six passengers.
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For your information, let us tell you that the Indian Embassy in Japan had talked about evacuating those citizens who do not have coronavirus infection. Meanwhile, it has been announced by the Hong Kong government that it will call back its citizens stranded on the cruise via two charter flights. Apart from India and Hong Kong, the US, South Korea, Canada have also talked about evacuating citizens whose investigation report has come negative.
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The world's luxury diamond princess cruise reached Yokohama port on 5 February. A passenger landed in Malaysia from the ship which was found infected with the Coronavirus. After this, the ship was put in isolation for 14 days at the port. Meanwhile, Japan has called 65 of its citizens trapped in China. After China, Japan is the most infected country with coronavirus. On the other hand, 98 more people died due to deadly coronavirus in China, which has increased the number of dead to 1,868. So far, a total of 72,436 cases of virus-infected cases have been confirmed in China. According to the National Health Commission of China, of the 98 people who died due to infection, 93 are from Hubei alone, 1,807 new cases have been reported in Hubei. With this figure, the number of infected people in Hubei province has increased to 59,989.
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