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  • We start with our continuing coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.

  • The death toll and the number of confirmed cases in China continues to rise.

  • For the latest, we connect to our Choi Jeong-yoon... who is on the line.

  • Jeong-yoon, those numbers keeping on ticking up.

  • Well Mark, as of this morning, the death toll in China is over 9-hundred, with 97 deaths

  • recorded in the past 24 hours.

  • This is the first time there have been more than 90 recorded deaths in a single day.

  • 91 out of the 97 deaths come from Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak.

  • There were also some 3 thousand more confirmed cases,... bringing the number of confirmed

  • infections to more than 40-thousand.

  • On a brighter note, the number of new cases has stabilized in recent days.

  • Other areas of China except for the Hubei Province, have seen a downturn in the number

  • of newly confirmed cases for the past 5 days in a row.

  • New cases across the rest of China were reportedly staying at some 5-hundred a day as of Friday.

  • The most recent data from China's National Health Commission also shows new cases as

  • of Sunday stand at some 3-hundred.

  • Meanwhile, anxiety rises as millions of Chinese are set to return home following the end of

  • the Lunar New Year holiday,... which was extended to February 9th.

  • Let's move on to the situation in Japan.

  • What's going on with the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked at the port of Yokohama?

  • Six more people on the cruise ship that has been quarantined for nearly a week have tested

  • positive for the novel coronavirus.

  • According to Kyodo News, six people were added to the confirmed cases of the Diamond Princess,

  • five of which are crew members.

  • This brings the total number of confirmed cases on the vessel to 70.

  • About 3-thousand-7-hundred people have been quarantined since last Monday, after it was

  • learned that a passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong on January 25th had been infected.

  • The Japanese government announced on Sunday it would test all passengers and crew members

  • on the ship.

  • Previously it had planned to test only those necessary.

  • Japan vowed full support to aid those quarantined who are reportedly suffering a shortage in

  • food and medical supplies.

  • Meanwhile, confirmed cases outside of the vessel stand at 26 in Japan.

  • Tokyo doesn't want to include the number of confirmed cases on the ship to the total cases

  • in Japan.

  • That's all I have for this hour, but I'll be back with more updates in our later newscast.

  • Back to you Mark.

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