In Japan, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 exceeded 17,000

In Japan, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection reached 17,022, of which 712 were coronavirus-infected passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise passenger liner. This is reported on May 16 by NHK with reference to the data of the Ministry of Health and local administrations of the country. According to journalists, in Japan over the past 24 hours 57 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected, including 14 cases of infection were recorded in the capital Tokyo. In the last 24 hours, 8,190 PCR tests for coronavirus were performed. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 761 COVID-19 have died of cancer and 11,806 patients have been cured of the disease. Recall, according to NHK, the cruise ship Diamond Princess, previously detained in the Japanese port of Yokohama due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus and long being the second outside the PRC hotbed for the spread of a new infection, left Japan.