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Ten more test positive for coronavirus on cruise ship filled with Americans

By Zach Halaschak
Published February 6, 2020 3:18am ET
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Ten more test positive for coronavirus on cruise ship filled with Americans
A small boat navigates near a cruise ship Diamond Princess anchoring off the Yokohama Port Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japanese health officials are conducting extensive medical checks on all 3,700 passengers and crew of the cruise ship that returned to the country after one passenger tested positive for the new coronavirus. | (Eugene Hoshiko/AP)

Ten more people have contracted coronavirus on a cruise ship in Japan with 3,700, including hundreds of Americans, quarantined aboard.

The Japanese Health Ministry said that an additional 10 people on Carnival’s Diamond Princess have been infected with coronavirus after 10 others were initially confirmed to have the illness. The total number of coronavirus victims in Japan has grown to 45 as the contagion continues to spread.

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