Two passengers from cruise ship quarantined in Japanese waters have died from novel coronavirus, officials say.
Passengers are assisted while loading bags into a taxi after disembarking from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked at the Daikoku Pier in Yokohama, Japan, on Feb. 20, 2020. Passengers who have tested negative for the novel coronavirus have been disembarking the cruise ship since Feb. 19, as at least 621 passengers and crew on board have been infected.
As of Wednesday, China's National Health Commission said it has received 74,576 reports of confirmed cases and 2,118 deaths on the Chinese mainland. Over 83 percent of the cases have been reported in Hubei province, the outbreak's epicenter.An additional 99 confirmed infections have been reported in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao as well as Taiwan, with two deaths in Hong Kong and one in Taiwan, according to China's National Health Commission.
Workers from a disinfection service spray disinfectant, as part of preventive measures against the spread of the novel coronavirus, at a public bus terminal in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 20, 2020. South Korea's coronavirus numbers nearly doubled on Feb. 20 -- almost half of them in a cluster centered on a sect in the city of Daegu -- and the country saw its first death of an infected patient.The virus spread overseas, with 924 confirmed cases in 25 countries, including the United States.
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