2 elderly passengers of virus-hit ship die in Japan

TOKYO - Two elderly Japanese passengers from the Diamond Princess, a coronavirus-hit cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, have died, the health ministry said Thursday.The deaths of the 87-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture and the 84-year-old woman from Tokyo raised the number of fatalities in Japan of people infected with the COVID-19 virus to three, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.The man, who had bronchial asthma and other pre-existing illnesses, was hospitalized on Feb. 11 after displaying symptoms such as fever and breathing difficulties, according to the ministry. H…READ FULL ARTICLE