A chartered plane believed to be conveying coronavirus medical supplies has crashed during takeoff. The aircraft, bound for Haneda, Japan, crashed at Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing all the eight people on board, on Sunday. It had reportedly been chartered by the government and was carrying emergency supplies to the country as it
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Six more people on a cruise ship off Japan are found to have the new coronavirus, the government said Sunday, bringing the number who have tested positive on board to 70. Test results are still coming in as passengers on the Diamond Princess face a two-week quarantine against the virus, which has killed hundreds of
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Japanese authorities said Tuesday a man with no recent travel to China has contracted the novel strain of coronavirus — apparently after driving tourists from Wuhan, where a deadly outbreak began. The man in his sixties from Nara drove two groups of tourists from Wuhan earlier in January and was hospitalised on Saturday with flu-like
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