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In Japan, the number of confirmed patients continues to increase. Confirmed patients are difficult to identify the path of infection.

I'm correspondent for Tokyo Yuseongjae.

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Today (21st), three corona19 confirmers were added from Hokkaido.

One of them is said to be under 10 years old and the other teenager.

This increased the number of infected in Japan to 731, including 634 confirmed cruise ship Diamond Princess.

Two people were confirmed yesterday in the Kyushu region, where there were no infected people.

In particular, many of the additional confirmed patients have no contact history with existing ones, making it difficult for authorities to determine the path of infection.

The cruise ship Diamond Princess, where the first victims died yesterday, continues to disembark.

Today is the last day the Japanese government has unloaded voice passengers, with 717 people coming off the boat yesterday and yesterday, and up to 450 people are expected to unload today.

There are still some passengers on board, who have occupied the same room with the 1,000 crew members and confirmers.

Their disembarkation schedule is yet to be determined.