The high number of people infected with corona .. The death of two elderly people in Japan and countries evacuating their citizens from the Yokohama ship

Japanese media announced on Thursday the death of two elderly people who were infected with the new Corona virus while they were on board a cruise ship that was subjected to a quarantine in Yokohama Port due to the outbreak of the epidemic.

Several media outlets, including the Japanese public television network NHK, said that the two elderly men and women in their eighties, who were evacuated from the ship "Diamond Princess" on the 11th and 12th of this month after they appeared to be HIV-positive, but they soon showed symptoms of the disease. They were admitted to the hospital where they died.

These are the first two people to die out of more than 600 people who have been infected on board the infected ship.

For his part, Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champaign said that the government will start Thursday evening evacuating its citizens from the cruise ship.

"The plane chartered by the government is currently in Tokyo. We will start the pre-flight and landing inspection tomorrow night local time," Champaign told reporters in Ottawa.

He said that people who have symptoms of the Coronavirus will not be allowed to leave, and those who have been confirmed with the virus will be treated in Japan. There are 251 Canadians on board the Diamond Princess, and 47 of them are confirmed to be infected with the virus.

As for the evacuees, once they arrive in Canada they will be transferred to a flight training base in Ontario to be quarantined for a period of 14 days.

Diamond Princess has been under quarantine since early this month. It has more than three thousand passengers and crew on board. Canada has already evacuated about 400 people from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the Coronavirus.

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In South Korea, 31 new cases of coronavirus were recorded today, bringing the number of people infected in the country to 82.

The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added in a statement that among the new cases, 23 cases were found to have occurred during masses attended by a 61-year-old patient in the central city of Daegu, who tested positive for the virus.

The Chenchionji Church posted a statement on its website on Wednesday, confirming that ten of its members had caught the virus as a result of their interactions with the woman who was attending those masses.

The death toll from the emerging corona virus in mainland China rose Thursday to 2112 after Hubei Province (the epicenter of the central epidemic) recorded 108 deaths over the past 24 hours.

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In the daily update of the death toll and injury, the Hubei Health Commission said that the vast majority of these deaths were registered in the provincial capital of Wuhan, the city where the virus first appeared in late December 2019.

She added that during the past 24 hours, 615 new cases of HIV were recorded in Wuhan, while in the rest of the province there were only 13 new infections, a result that represents a very significant decrease from that recorded Wednesday (1,693 new cases in Hubei).

On the other hand, the committee reduced the total number of recorded injuries in the past days, without explaining the reason for this reduction.

According to the new toll, the number of people infected with the virus across mainland China is 474,500.