후베이 제외 중국 코로나19 주춤 속 하루 확진 5천여명 증가
China has confirms another 120 deaths from the coronavirus and 5-thousand newly confirmed cases.
And on Thursday, Japan reported its first death,... which is only the third outside China.
Park Hee-jun has the latest from around the world. The death toll from the coronavirus is still shooting up in China...
According to the country's National Health Commission, the total number of deaths in mainland China has reached more than 1-thousand-300,... and the number of infections has breached 63-thousand.
That's 120 additional deaths and 5-thousand newly confirmed cases on Thursday.
And Hubei Province, the center of the outbreak,... saw 116 of those deaths and more than 3-thousand of those new confirmed cases of the virus.
Japan, on Thursday, reported its first death linked to the outbreak.
It was a woman in her 80s, a resident in the Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo.
She'd been in hospital since February 1st after being diagnosed with pneumonia.
This is the third death outside mainland China,... following one death in the Philippines and another in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong added three more coronavirus cases, bringing its total to 53.
The U.S. has also confirmed its 15th case on Thursday, local time.
On board the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan...
Another 44 cases were confirmed Thursday 29 Japanese and 15 non-Japanese.
That brings the total number of infected cases to 218.
After putting the 36-hundred passengers under two weeks of mandatory quarantine,... Japanese health officials plan to let those aged 80 or older to leave the ship as early as Friday,... if they test negative for the virus.
Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.
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