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Japan is preventing passengers from leaving a cruise ship after a male passenger was found to be infected with the coronavirus when he disembarked in Hong Kong late last month, the health ministry said.
Several dozen quarantine officers were checking the health of the 2,500 passengers and 1,000 crew members, Japan’s health ministry said on Tuesday.
The vessel arrived at Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Monday evening, with passengers informed that their departure would be delayed for 24 hours while tests were carried out, according to Kyodo news agency.
There has been a lot of discussion social media and from emails from Guardian readers about how many people have had the virus and recovered.
This has been quite a difficult figure to pin down globally.
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