10 More Sick With Virus On Cruise Ship

February 6, 2020 4:10 am

BEIJING (AP) – Japanese health officials say 10 more people have been sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard. China has reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug on Thursday. The ships in Japan and Hong Kong are caught up in a global health emergency that seems to worsen by the day. The 10 who were infected on top of 10 others on Wednesday were dropped off in Yokohama where the ship docked and transferred to nearby hospitals for further test and treatment. In the epicenter of Wuhan, in central China, a second 1,500-bed hospital is set to open Thursday.