LATEST: Coronavirus deaths rise to 908 on mainland China; 65 more cases identified on a cruise ship off Japan, including 11 Americans.
The number of people killed by the novel coronavirus in China continued to rise Monday, with officials reporting a total of 908 deaths. Officials with China's National Health Commission had reported 811 deaths Sunday.
The U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said people with the virus can now be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave. An American died Feb. 6 and a Japanese patient died Feb. 8, ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily news briefing in Beijing.Twenty-two other cases are under treatment, he added. —China's foreign ministry said a WHO expert group will arrive in Beijing on Monday to discuss specific arrangements for the China-WHO joint mission.
The update takes the total of infections on the ship to more than 130, domestic broadcasters TBS and NHK said, citing Japanese health ministry sources.
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