Japanese health officials say that so far 10 people on board a cruise ship anchored off the coast of Yokohama have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
China is confronting the challenge of upgrading its medical system to fight the rapid spread of the new coronavirus.
The UN chief has said the "big emitters" of greenhouse gas should make more efforts to achieve carbon neutrality in relation to climate change.
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Key words : health official 10 people
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Japanese health officials have confirmed that 10 people on board a cruise ship anchored off the coast of Yokohama are infected with the new coronavirus.
The health ministry announced the results of tests on Wednesday. It said 10 of the 31 passengers checked had tested positive.
Officials say the infected travelers have been transported to hospitals and their conditions are not serious.
The officials say two patients participated in a bus tour when the ship stopped at a port in Kagoshima, southern Japan. The individuals travelled on the bus with an 80-year-old man from Hong Kong. He was the first of the ship's passengers found to be infected with the virus. He was diagnosed after he disembarked in his home city.
The Diamond Princess has been at anchor off the coast of Yokohama since Monday night. Passengers from 56 countries and regions are on board.
The ministry has been screening the more than 3,700 passengers and crew members on the vessel.
Specimen samples have been collected from 120 individuals with symptoms, such as a fever and a cough. Samples have also been taken from 153 others, who had close contact with those individuals or with the passenger from Hong Kong.
The ministry says people on board will be confined there for 14 days.
The ship departed from the Yokohama port on January 20. It made port calls in Kagoshima and Hong Kong.
Key words : people on a cruise
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Japan's prime minister says people on a cruise ship moored off Yokohama will be asked to remain on board for an extended period, as 10 of them have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Shinzo Abe spoke at a session of the Lower House budget committee on Wednesday.
Abe said officials will ask the 10 infected people to disembark and go to hospitals. The infectious disease control law permits authorities to require hospitalizations.
He said officials will ask the other people to stay aboard the vessel for a while, as the virus has an incubation period of up to 14 days.
Key words : foreign minister coordinating
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Japan's foreign minister says the government is coordinating with China to send its fourth chartered flight on Thursday to evacuate people from Hubei. The number of infections with the new coronavirus has been spiking in the inland province.
Toshimitsu Motegi spoke to reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday, indicating that the fourth flight may bring about 200 people back to Japan.
He said roughly 140 Japanese nationals have expressed a desire to return home on the flight.
Motegi added that from a humanitarian standpoint, the two governments are coordinating to allow people with links to Japan, such as Chinese spouses of Japanese people, to board the flight.
The Japanese government has so far dispatched three chartered flights to China and brought back a total of 565 people.
Key words : defense ministry
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Japan's Defense Ministry is preparing a chartered ferry to accommodate people who return from China amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The 17,000-ton Hakuo is typically used to transport Self-Defense Forces units. It has been sent to Yokosuka base near Tokyo to serve as temporary lodgings for people who return from Wuhan on government-chartered aircraft.
Self-Defense Forces personnel and the ship's crew on Wednesday confirmed procedures for taking in evacuees, if the ferry is called into service.
Ministry officials say of the ship's 94 guest rooms, 24 that are equipped with a shower and toilet will be used to accommodate one person each.
Self-Defense Forces vessels and vehicles are usually sent upon request from local governments. But the ministry decided to prepare the ferry in advance due to the urgency of the situation.
Key words : china confronting
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China is confronting the challenge of upgrading its medical system to fight the rapid spread of the new coronavirus.
The city of Wuhan's first quickly-built hospital dedicated to treating coronavirus patients began operating on Tuesday. Wuhan is the hardest-hit city in Hubei Province. The facility is capable of admitting 1,000 patients. It was built in ten days.
The hospital's deputy director was interviewed by China's state-run broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday night. He said only 45 patients with mild symptoms had been admitted so far. He added that facilities are still insufficient.
The official said that in several more days the hospital will begin accepting patients on a full-fledged basis.
A second hastily-built hospital is scheduled to be completed in Wuhan on Wednesday. It will start accepting patients on Thursday.
Work is also underway in the city to convert 11 facilities into temporary hospitals. The facilities include gymnasiums and conference halls.
They will help handle the 3,000 new cases confirmed on Tuesday in Hubei Province alone.
China's National Health Committee said on Wednesday that the number of new cases of confirmed infections in the country had increased from the previous tally by 3,887. There are now 24,324 people infected.
Sixty-five more people have died from the virus in Hubei Province. That brings the total number of deaths in the country to 490.
Key words : surgical short supply
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Surgical masks that are in short supply in Japan amid the coronavirus outbreak are being resold online at prices more than ten times the original.
Online shopping giant Amazon has mostly run out of masks sold at regular prices, but many are available for much higher prices.
Three boxes of masks that normally cost about six dollars each were being offered for about 300 dollars.
Users of the flea market app Mercari are snapping up masks despite their inflated prices.
Mercari issued a statement on its website on Tuesday asking both sellers and buyers to act within reasonable social norms.
The app provider has warned it could ask sellers where their items came from, delete listings, or limit access.
Amazon says it has set rules for reasonably-priced sales and is monitoring its website, and that violators will be asked to remove their items.
Key words : spread of the virus pull back
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The spread of the virus in China is forcing a Japanese restaurant operator to pull back from the market. Watami says it is closing all of its Japanese-style taverns known as 'Izakaya' in mainland China.
The company plans to shut down seven Chinese Watami outlets within a few months.
Executives say customer traffic is down sharply and they fear spending will fall further. They say sales have plunged to less than 10 percent of levels before the outbreak.
The firm is one of Japan's major restaurant operators. It branched into China in 2005 and ran 42 restaurants there by 2014. But sluggish sales forced it to cut back to seven outlets, located in cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Key words : sports agency
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Japan's Sports Agency has begun examining the impact the coronavirus outbreak could be having on athletes preparing for the Olympic and Paralympic games, which open in Tokyo in about six months.
The Sports Agency is surveying Japanese sports associations to assess how the outbreak has affected athletes' training camps and international competitions inside and outside Japan.
The survey is being conducted through several organizations, including the Japan Olympic Committee and Japanese Para-Sports Association.
The Sports Agency hopes to report its findings by mid-February.
The agency is urging athletes and support staff at the athletic organizations to continue exercising caution regarding activities abroad. It plans to work together with relevant associations to consider measures based on the information gathered.
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads, a number of Olympic qualifying events originally scheduled to be held in China are being rescheduled in other locations. They include soccer, table tennis, as well as track and field.
Key words : UN chief big emitter
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The UN chief has said the "big emitters" of greenhouse gas should make more efforts to achieve carbon neutrality in relation to climate change.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres held his first news conference of this year at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
Guterres warned that a new climate crisis alert by the World Meteorological Organization indicates CO2 concentrations will reach new highs in 2020.
He said it is important for the "big emitters," including the United States, China, India, Japan and Russia, to announce by November their commitment to respect and assume the objective of carbon neutrality in 2050.
The UN climate conference COP26 is to be held in Britain in November.
On nuclear disarmament, Guterres said it is essential for the US and Russia to renew the New START bilateral nuclear arms reduction treaty. The treaty expires in February 2021.
He said that if the New START ends without renewal, it's not only the question of the limitation of arms but it is "all the mechanisms of control in monitoring that would be put into question."
Guterres also said he plans to be in Hiroshima for the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing on August 6. He said it will be a way to demonstrate "not only my solidarity with Hiroshima, but my strong commitment to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation."
Key words : team of scientist
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A team of scientists at Japan's Kyoto University says its clinical trials for Parkinson's disease using reprogrammed stem cells are going well.
The trials involve iPS cells. They are body cells engineered to be able to develop into any kind of tissue.
Parkinson's is an intractable disease caused by the loss of brain nerve cells that produce dopamine, a transmitter of signals between the cells.
Japan has an estimated 150,000 patients with the disease, whose symptoms include limb tremors and slowed movement.
In October 2018, the team injected iPS-derived cells into the brain of a patient in the hope they would turn into neurons and help restore body functions.
The same procedure was conducted on two more patients last year. The team says none of the three patients has developed side effects, such as the implanted cells turning cancerous.
Four more patients are scheduled to join the trials in the next fiscal year.
The team's goal is to make the treatment widely available and covered by health insurance schemes.
Professor Ryosuke Takahashi says the trials are progressing in accordance with the plan. He says the team members will keep monitoring the treatment's effectiveness and safety.
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