Coronavirus news – live: British honeymooner among dozens of new cases reported on quarantined cruise ship, as US announces $100m aid

Samuel Osborne, Chiara Giordano
Ambulances driven by medical staff wearing protective clothing carry passengers diagnosed with coronavirus to hospital after removing them from the Diamond Princess cruise ship while it is docked in Yokohama, Japan, 7 February, 2020: Carl Court/Getty Images
Ambulances driven by medical staff wearing protective clothing carry passengers diagnosed with coronavirus to hospital after removing them from the Diamond Princess cruise ship while it is docked in Yokohama, Japan, 7 February, 2020: Carl Court/Getty Images

The third person to have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK is believed to have caught the disease in Singapore.

It comes as Japan reported 41 new cases of the illness on a quarantined cruise ship near Yokohama. Before the new cases, 20 infected passengers had been escorted off the Diamond Princess.

Meanwhile, a Chinese doctor who had been threatened by police after sounding the alarm about the coronavirus died. The illness has killed 636 people and infected 31,161, with 260 cases recorded outside of China.

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