The first death from coronavirus has been reported in Japan
JAPAN HAS ANNOUNCED its first death from the coronavirus, hours after confirming 44 more cases on a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo.
The ship now has 218 people infected with the virus out of 713 tested since it entered Yokohama Port on 3 February, the largest cluster of infections outside China. The virus has had massive ramifications globally since emerging from the central Chinese province of Hubei last month, with many countries banning travellers from China in a bid to stop people spreading the disease.
Hubei authorities said the huge increases were because they had broadened their definition for cases to include people “clinically diagnosed” via lung imaging.The commission said it looked into past suspected cases and revised their diagnoses, suggesting that older cases were included in Thursday’s numbers.
The HSE said that Covid-19 will also be added to the list of infectious diseases that “allows a doctor to detain a probable case of infection in the highly unlikely event that a person refuses to comply with infection prevention and control protocols”.Related Read 12.02.
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