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Coronavirus news live: Latest updates as virus spreads to Japan cruise ship with Britons aboard
Original source: www.independent.co.uk
At least one Briton is among cruise ship passengers quarantined on a liner in Japan after 10 people aboard were found to be infected with coronavirus.
Some 3,700 passengers and crew are now locked down on the Diamond Princess – with just 31 results of 273 tests having come back.
It came as the global death toll neared 500 and a Belgian woman who boarded an evacuation flight to the UK tested positive for coronavirus.
Hundreds of people are being held aboard another cruise ship in Hong Kong, where the airline Cathay Pacific has also reportedly asked 27,000 staff to take unpaid leave.
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