Another seventy persons on board a quarantined cruise ship have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to three hundred and fifty five.
The Diamond Princess, owned by Carnival Corporation, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama on the third of February.
This is after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong before it travelled to Japan was diagnosed with the virus.
The ship has the most coronavirus infections outside China and those testing positive are transferred to Japanese hospitals.