23 passengers were released from quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship without being tested for COVID-19 because of procedural mistakes, Japan's health minister says.
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Katsunobu Kato said the 23 were tested before the quarantine began aboard the vesselthat was quarantined off the coast of the city of Yokohama from Feb. 5. More than 600 people were infected with the virus aboard the ship which had 3,700 people on board. “We deeply regret that there was an operational error," Kato told a news conference Saturday. “We will examine what went wrong so we will not repeat the same mistake.”China reported a sharp decrease in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, but a surge of infections in South Korea and new cases in Iran added to unease about its rapid global spread.
Cao Guangjing, the vice governor of Hubei, said that despite the improvements, levels of supplies such as the suits were lower than they should be.
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