A bus driver in Japan was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Tuesday.

This was the first person in Japan diagnosed with the virus who did not travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The bus driver did drive tourists from Wuhan twice in December.

So Wuhan travelers were spreading the virus in Japan back in December.

NHK reported:

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Japan’s health minister Katsunobu Kato has announced that two more people have been confirmed infected with the new coronavirus in Japan. Kato said on Tuesday that one of them has no record of staying in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. The person is the first to be confirmed infected despite having no record of staying in Wuhan. Kato also said the person is a bus driver in Nara Prefecture who drove for tourists from Wuhan twice in January.

There are now several confirmed cases of coronavirus in several countries.

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World Health Organization made a terrible mistake last week by not declaring this coronavirus a global health emergency. The WHO must reverse this decision immediately. https://t.co/fuC0iUA0UV — Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) January 30, 2020

In other news an 87-year-old woman was released from a hospital.

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