Another 99 people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship , in quarantine in Yokohama (Japan), have tested positive for the new coronavirus, according to the Japanese press, citing the latest balance of the Ministry of Health. In this way, there are 454 those infected on the ship, which is isolated with more than 3,000 people on board in the Japanese port since it arrived last day 3.
Among the more than 300 US citizens evacuated from the ship by plane, 14 are infected, as announced by the State Department on Monday. Washington was the first government to announce that it would take its nationals off that ship, which concentrates the largest number of virus infections outside of China.
Meanwhile, Australia will evacuate more than 200 people from the Diamond Princess, as Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed on Monday. This Wednesday they will be transferred to Darwin, in northern Australia, where they will have to spend a new quarantine of 14 days. The plane enabled for this transfer will also board an undetermined number of New Zealanders, who will fly from Darwin to their country.
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Search for cruise passengers landed in Cambodia
The Holland America Line cruise line attempts to locate passengers who disembarked from their Westerdam ship last week in Cambodia, after one of the occupants, a US citizen, tested positive for the coronavirus the next day upon arriving in Malaysia .
The company says that no other of the 1,454 passengers and 802 crew members traveling aboard the cruise have reported symptoms of the disease, reports Reuters. "Passengers who have already returned home will be contacted by their local health department and will receive more information," says a company statement.
The ship had docked at the Cambodian port of Shihanoukville on Thursday, after spending two weeks on the high seas. Five countries had refused to give him permission to disembark for fear of the coronavirus.
After the initial tests indicated the absence of contagion, Cambodia approved the landing and the Prime Minister himself, Hun Sen, came to receive the passengers, who personally shook hands and handed bouquets of flowers. A part of these travelers stayed in Cambodia to visit the country. Several hundred have returned to their places of origin on at least three continents.
China plans to postpone the annual session of Parliament
China plans to postpone the annual session of its legislative body, the National People's Assembly, due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the disease caused by Wuhan's coronavirus. The ANP meeting, which was due to begin on March 5, represents the largest political event on the Chinese calendar each year and brings together more than 3,000 delegates from all over the country, in addition to the main government leaders, for two weeks in the Great People's Palace.
The main responsible of the ANP will meet on Monday 24 to decide on the possibility of postponing the appointment, which together with its twin, the annual meeting of the Advisory Council scheduled from March 3, is colloquially known as "lianghui" or "two sessions".
The Chinese capital, Beijing, has put in place tough measures to try to stop the epidemic, including the obligation to submit a 14-day quarantine to anyone who arrives from abroad, whether from abroad or from other Chinese provinces.
New contagion figures
The new infections by the Covid-19 epidemic in China have risen slightly again, after three days of progressive declines, and on Sunday they reached 2,048, according to figures from the National Health Commission. That day 105 deaths from the disease were recorded, one hundred of them in the province of Hubei, where the outbreak arose. In total, 1,770 people in China have died from the pathogen, and another five in other countries.
In total, since the first cases began to be detected in December, 70,548 people have been infected in China, of which 10,881 have been discharged and 10,664 are in serious condition. There are another 7,264 patients suspected of suffering from the disease.
Hubei, which concentrates the majority of infections, has reported 1,933 new cases and a hundred deaths on Sunday, which brings its total number of infections since the beginning of the crisis to 58,152. Of these, 1,696 have died.
Japan cancels the emperor's public greeting for his birthday
Japan announced Monday that it will cancel the public celebration of Emperor Naruhito's birthday, amid growing fears of a spread of the new coronavirus in the country. "In the light of several situations, we have decided to cancel the general public's visit to the palace for his majesty's birthday," the imperial agency said in a statement, one day after authorities asked the population to avoid crowds and "meetings." not essential. "
Tokyo marathon excludes 37,000 amateur runners
The organizers of the Tokyo marathon have decided to exclude more than 37,000 amateur runners who had already registered in the test due to fear of the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, so the competition will only have elite runners, as reported by the Japanese news agency Kiodo.
The Tokyo marathon serves as a qualification test for the 2020 Olympic Games that will host the Japanese capital this summer and also for the qualification for the marathon Olympic teams of each country. The marathon will have the participation of elite runners and wheelchair athletes, with a total of 206 participants in both categories.