Japan Passes 10,000 Domestic Cases of CCP Virus

Japan Passes 10,000 Domestic Cases of CCP Virus
An ambulance carrying a passenger onboard cruise ship Diamond Princess arrives at a hospital in Yokohama, near Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2020. Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP
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TOKYO—Japanese health ministry said Sunday that 568 new cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, were reported the day before, bringing a domestic total to 10,361.

A combined total including 712 others from a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo earlier this year came to 11,073, with 174 deaths.