COVID-19 outbreak GLOBAL UPDATE: More than 70,000 confirmed cases, 1,700 deaths reported in China

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The novel coronavirus is showing no signs of easing in China.
Over 17-hundred people have died there, with the number of new cases rising.
And reports of more infections are coming out from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship as well.
Our Choi Jeong-yoon has the latest.
The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus has surpassed 70-thousand in China.
The Chinese authorities reported on Monday,...that the virus has infected at least two-thousand more people within the past 24 hours.
There were also one-hundred more deaths in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak,...hiking the total death toll in China to over 17-hundred.
In Japan,... 70 more people have tested positive for the virus onboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship that remains docked at Yokohama Port.
It brings the number of total confirmed cases on the vessel to 355 and over 400 in the country the highest number outside of mainland China.
On Monday morning, the U.S. evacuated its citizens that have been holed up on the cruise ship for weeks.
Some three-hundred passengers boarded two airplanes chartered by the U.S. government at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
American travelers, who were quarantined on the cruise ship for more than ten days, were screened for symptoms prior to disembarking the ship and will undergo another two weeks in quarantine upon their arrival in the U.S.
Forty-four Americans who tested positive could not return home.
Taiwan also reported its first COVID-19 death on Sunday after a male taxi driver in his 60s died from the virus.
It makes him the 5th death outside of mainland China.
The man was one of two confirmed cases in Taiwan,... with the other being a family member of the deceased male.
It's been reported he had no recent travel history outside Taiwan.
However, local reports say most of his customers were people who had a history of traveling to China, Hong Kong, and Macao so it could've been human-to-human transmission from another carrier.
Choi Jeong-yoon, Arirang News.

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