COVID-19 UPDATE: More than 70,000 cases, 1,700 deaths reported in China; 14 infected...

The number of deaths from the virus as well as new cases continues to climb in China. Over in Japan, fourteen passengers, believed to be well before being evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship were found to be infected before boarding a charter plane to the United States. Here’s Choi Jeong-yoon with the updates. The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus has surpassed 70-thousand in China. The Chinese authorities reported Monday... that the virus has infected at least two-thousand more people within the past 24 hours. There were also one-hundred more deaths in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak,... raising the total death toll in China to more than 17-hundred. In Japan,... another 99 people have tested positive for the virus on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship,... bringing the total number of confirmed cases on the ship to 454 and to more than 500 in Japan as a whole the highest number outside of mainland China. On Monday morning, the U.S. e