BEIJING (AP): Japanese officials say four evacuees on a flight from the Chinese city of Wuhan have a cough and fever.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed their condition after the flight of 206 evacuees arrived Wednesday morning at a Tokyo airport.
The new type of coronavirus that has infected thousands of people, mainly in China, causes cold- and flu-like symptoms, including cough and fever, and in more severe cases, shortness of breath and pneumonia. The 5,974 cases on the mainland marked a rise of 1,459 from the previous day, although that rise is a smaller increase than the 1,771 new cases reported on Monday. Dozens of infections of the new type of coronavirus have been confirmed outside mainland China as well.
"We were feeling increasingly uneasy as the situation developed so rapidly and we were still in the city, ” Aoyama told reporters, wearing a white surgical mask that slightly muffled his voice. Aoyama said more than 400 Japanese people wishing to return to Japan are in Wuhan, including those who are working for a Japanese supermarket chain that stays open to serve customers who need food.
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