According to local press, the two octogenarians suffered from pre-existing conditions and were evacuated from the boat on February 11 and 12.
These would be the first fatal cases among the more than 600 carriers of the virus confirmed on the cruise ship “Diamond princess”. Two patients with the new coronavirus from the quarantined liner in Japan died, Japanese media reported on Thursday, February 20. These two octogenarians suffered from preexisting conditions and had been evacuated from the boat on February 11 and 12, said NHK, without this information being confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
Tokyo announced on Wednesday evening 79 new carriers of the coronavirus on board, bringing the total number of cases listed on the “Diamond Princess” to 621, making this cruise ship docked in the port of Yokohama, in the suburb of Tokyo, the largest source of the virus outside of China.
On Wednesday, 443 passengers disembarked. The evacuation of all passengers should take at least three days. The symptomless cruise lines, whose tests were negative and who had no contact with people carrying the virus, disembarked throughout the day, after 14 days of quarantine.
These two deaths brings to 10 the number of fatal cases outside mainland China. On Wednesday, Iranian officials announced the deaths of two people in Iran. In addition, South Korea announced on Thursday an outbreak of the epidemic on its territory, with 23 new cases of contamination linked to religious services in Daegu. There are now 82 people infected with the virus in the country.
However, in the country from which the epidemic started, there has been a decrease in the daily number of additional cases of Covid-19 coronavirus contamination. But it is difficult to determine to what extent the decline in the number of new cases of daily contamination is due to the new diagnostic method or to a decrease in the number of people contracting the virus.
The epidemic caused an additional 114 deaths Wednesday in mainland China, local health officials reported on Thursday, bringing the country’s deaths from the virus to 2,118. In its daily report, the National Health Commission reported Thursday 394 new cases of contamination, against 1,749 the day before. According to his figures, there are now 74,576 patients in mainland China.
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