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		</div><p>The death toll in mainland China’s coronavirus outbreak has risen to 636, authorities have announced.</p>
<p>The toll includes a doctor who got in trouble in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the disease threat.</p>
<p>Dr Li Wenliang, 34, was reportedly reprimanded for “spreading rumours” in late December.</p>
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<p>And Japan has said 41 new cases of coronavirus have been found on a cruise ship that is quarantined in Yokohama harbour.</p>
<p>That brings the total number of cases to 61 on the Diamond Princess ship.</p>
<p>There are 78 people with British passports – including crew – on the ship, sources told the PA news agency.</p>
<p>The Diamond Princess and another docked cruise ship, the World Dream, with thousands of passengers and crew members remain under 14-day quarantines in Japan and Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Before Friday’s 41 further confirmed cases, 20 passengers who were found to have the virus were escorted off the Diamond Princess.</p>
<figure id="attachment_149112" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149112" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149112" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/471D072C-AEB4-4546-BF58-5D5A85467BDF.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="431" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149112" class="wp-caption-text">The cruise ship Diamond Princess is docked at Yokohama Port</figcaption></figure>
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<p>About 3,700 people have been confined aboard the ship.</p>
<p>“It’s going to be like a floating prison,” British passenger David Abel wrote on Facebook.</p>
<p>He had set out on a 50th wedding anniversary luxury cruise on the Diamond Princess but found himself in his cabin, eating a “lettuce sandwich with some chicken inside”.</p>
<p>More than 3,600 people on the other quarantined ship, the World Dream, underwent screening after eight passengers were diagnosed with the virus.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, a newborn discovered to be infected 36 hours after birth has become the youngest known patient.</p>
<p>The number of people infected globally has risen to more than 31,000.</p>
<p>Dr Li had worked at a hospital in the epicentre of the outbreak in the central city of Wuhan.</p>
<p>He was reprimanded by the police for “spreading rumours” about the illness in late December, according to news reports.</p>
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<blockquote><p>It’s going to be like a floating prison</p></blockquote>
<p>The outbreak has spread to around two dozen countries, triggering travel restrictions and quarantines around the world and a crisis inside the country of 1.4 billion.</p>
<p>Dr Li was among a number of medical professionals in Wuhan who tried to warn colleagues and others when the government did not, The New York Times reported earlier this week.</p>
<p>It said that after the mystery illness had stricken seven patients at a hospital, Dr Li said of them in an online chat group on December 30: “Quarantined in the emergency department.”</p>
<p>Another participant in the chat responded by wondering, “Is SARS coming again?” – a reference to the 2002-03 viral outbreak that killed hundreds, the newspaper said.</p>
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<p>The number of people infected globally by coronavirus</p>
<p>Wuhan health officials summoned Dr Li in the middle of the night to demand he explain why he shared the information, and police later forced him to sign a statement admitting to “illegal behaviour”, the paper said.</p>
<p>“If the officials had disclosed information about the epidemic earlier,” Dr Li said in an interview in the Times via text messages, “I think it would have been a lot better. There should be more openness and transparency.”</p>
<p>China finished building a second new hospital on Thursday to isolate and treat patients – a 1,500-bed centre in Wuhan.</p>
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<p>Earlier this week, another rapidly constructed, 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan with prefabricated wards and isolation rooms began taking patients.</p>
<p>Authorities also moved people with milder symptoms into makeshift hospitals at sport arenas, exhibition halls and other public spaces.</p>
<p>Altogether, more than 50 million people are under virtual quarantine in Hubei province in an unprecedented – and unproven – bid to bring the outbreak under control.</p>
<p>In Hong Kong, hospital workers demanding a shutdown of the territory’s border with mainland China were still on strike on Friday.</p>
<p>The territory’s leader Carrie Lam announced a 14-day quarantine of all travellers entering the city from the mainland starting on Saturday, but the government has refused to seal the border entirely.</p>
<p>Taiwan has said it will refuse entry to all non-citizens or residents who have recently visited Hong Kong, Macao or China from Friday.</p>
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<p>From Europe to Australia and the US, universities that host Chinese students or have study-abroad programmes are scrambling to assess the risks, and some are cancelling opportunities and prohibiting student travel.</p>
<p>The organisers of the Tokyo Olympics have again sought to allay fears that the 2020 Games could be postponed or cancelled because of the crisis.</p>
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