A British man has become the first UK citizen to die from coronavirus after being infected on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.
He is the sixth passenger to die from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, Japan’s health ministry said.
Hundreds of people on board the liner became infected while it was held in quarantine off the port of Yokohama earlier this month.
It comes as the number of coronavirus cases in the UK rose to 19.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee on Monday in response to a growing number of cases in Europe.
Earlier on Friday, three more cases of the virus were confirmed in the UK, including the first one in Wales.
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