(VOVWORLD) - Two elderly passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship infected with COVID-19 have died, the Japanese Ministry of Health and Labor said Thursday.
 All passengers are scheduled to leave the Diamond Princess in the next 3 days. |
The man and woman, both Japanese and in their 80s, were taken off the cruise ship last week and died while hospitalized on Thursday.
621 passengers on the Diamond Princess have been infected with COVID-19, including 29 serious cases.