Beijing - Hundreds of people began disembarking a quarantined cruise ship off Japan on Wednesday as the death toll from the new coronavirus in mainland China passed 2 000 and the number of new cases in the country fell for a second straight day.
Around 500 passengers were due to disembark the virus-hit Diamond Princess docked at Yokohama near Tokyo, public broadcaster NHK said, ending an ordeal that began when the ship was quarantined on February 3 after a former passenger was diagnosed with the virus in Hong Kong. There were also more promising signs out of China, where the National Health Commission reported the lowest daily rise in new infections since January 29, or 1 749 new confirmed cases. Hubei province - the epicentre of the outbreak - reported the lowest number of new infections since Feb. 11.
The latest figures bring the total number of cases in China to over 74 000 and the total death toll to 2 004, three quarters of which have occurred in the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan. Six people have died outside mainland China, including a new fatality announced on Wednesday in Hong Kong. The biggest concentration of infections outside of China was aboard the Carnival Corp-owned Diamond Princess, with more than 540 people infected out of about 3 700 passengers and crew on board when the quarantine was imposed.
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