Updated On: 06 February, 2020 07:50 AM IST | Tokyo | Agencies
Around 25 countries have confirmed cases of the virus, which has killed nearly 500 and infected more than 24,000 in mainland China.

Doctors take a passenger tested positive for Coronavirus from the cruise ship at Yokohama Port on Wednesday. Pic/AFP
Tokyo: "At least 10 people on a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (nCoV)," Japan's health minister said on Wednesday.
Japan quarantined the vessel carrying 3,711 people and began testing those on board for the virus after a former passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the illness.