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| - Evacuation of US passengers from Diamond Princess cruise ship. Scramble to trace hundreds of other passengers from a liner after they disembarked in Cambodia. Top Beijing car show cancelled. Here are the latest developments in China's coronavirus crisis. The death toll from China's novel coronavirus epidemic jumps to 1,770 in mainland China after 105 more people succumb. Outside mainland China five more deaths are recorded in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, France and Taiwan. The number of infections approaches 70,500 in China, while there are nearly 800 cases in some 30 other countries. The number of people infected on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan since February 3 has risen to 454, a daily jump of 99. They represent the biggest cluster outside China. The ship carried 3,711 passengers and crew on arrival. The US has evacuated more than 300 of their nationals who had been on the ship via chartered flights home, where they will be quarantined locally. Fourteen of those passengers are infected. A scramble intensified to trace passengers from a US cruise liner allowed to disembark in Cambodia despite at least one traveller later being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus. The Westerdam was at sea for two weeks and barred from five Asian ports over fears it could be carrying the virus, before it was able to dock in Cambodia. Of the 1,455 passengers, more than 1,200 have disembarked from the ship and some have since left Cambodia to return to their home countries. The Beijing auto show, China's biggest car salon scheduled to take place in April, has been called off. In Japan organisers announced they would cancel the amateur portion of the Tokyo marathon, ruling out the competition for 38,000 runners. Also in Japan, a public gathering for the emperor's birthday set for later in February has been cancelled. nzg-eab/gd
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