2 more Japanese evacuees from Wuhan infected with coronavirus

14:02, 11.02.2020

Two more Japanese men were confirmed to have been infected with a new coronavirus after returning home from Wuhan, the centre of the virus outbreak, on government-chartered planes in late January, the health ministry said Tuesday.

The confirmation brought to a total of 163 the number of people who have tested positive for the deadly pneumonia-causing virus in Japan, including 135 on a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

Japan has brought back a total of 763 Japanese and their non-Japanese family members on four chartered planes since late last month, as reported by Kyodo News.

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