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An additional 88 people were confirmed on the Japanese cruise ship, surpassing 500 people on board. Passengers get off the boat from today (19th), and the number of infected people in other areas is increasing day by day.

I'm correspondent for Tokyo Yuseongjae.

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The cruise ship Diamond Princess confirmed 88 passengers yesterday.

This increased the number of cruising victims to 542.

Even if only one out of five patients were diagnosed with a serious infection, the Japanese government said it did not leave the cruise ship but quarantined it.

The two-week quarantine period, which began on May 5, ends today, and the Japanese government plans to unload the negatively judged passengers from today to the day after tomorrow.

Of the 2,700 people currently on board, 500 people are expected to disembark first.

The problem is the spread of infection in Japan.

Three people were confirmed yesterday in Wakayama Prefecture, which admitted hospital infections, including two in-hospital infections, including the first 10 infected in Japan.

Three more people were added to Tokyo, and late in the night, Kanagawa Prefecture's Yokohama infection was confirmed by 60 taxi drivers.

This has resulted in 615 infected people in Japan, including cruise ships.