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Now let's look at the situation in Japan. With more than 540 cruise ships infected, some of the two-week quarantine passengers get off the boat sequentially starting today (19th). The cruise ship was quarantined to prevent propagation of the mainland, but the number of confirmed patients in Japan 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.

Although only one out of five patients were diagnosed with a serious infection, the Japanese government insisted that the response was appropriate, saying 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, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, confirmed the infection of taxi drivers in their 60s.

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