<Anchor>

Next, let's look at the local situation in Japan. Cruise ship passengers who have finished their two-week quarantine period will be off the ship starting today (19th), and they will not be able to get off until the day after tomorrow. In the meantime, there are more and more confirmed patients in Japan.

I am a correspondent of Yu Sung-jae in Tokyo.

<Reporter>

The cruise ship Diamond Princess confirmed 88 passengers yesterday.

This increased the number of cruising to 542 cruise ships.

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 and responded appropriately.

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 remaining passengers, 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 infections in the metropolitan area, a heavily populated area, continued to be confirmed in Kanagawa prefecture's Yokohama.

The number of infected in Japan has reached 616, including cruise ships.