Friday, 21 Feb 2020 12:42 PM MYT
The scheduled departure of more than 400 passengers from the Diamond Princess after weeks in quarantine comes as the US Centers for Disease Control issued a low-level travel advisory for Japan. Meanwhile some public gatherings in Tokyo and elsewhere are being scrapped in a bid to contain the virus, which has killed more than 2,200 in mainland China so far.
Today, three more people tested positive in the northern island of Hokkaido, two of them schoolchildren, Hokkaido's governor said at a briefing. Suga faced questions about one of the two former passengers on the ship who died, an 84-year-old woman who developed a fever on February 5 but was not tested for the virus until a week later.
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