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What's been happening around the world?
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Relatives collect the remains of Covid victim after a mass cremation in New DelhiImage caption: Relatives collect the remains of Covid victim after a mass cremation in New Delhi
Here are some of the biggest developments from around the world today:
A total of 386,452 new cases were reported today - the biggest one-day increase on record for any country.
There were another 3,500 deaths nationwide and nearly 400 in Delhi - a record for the capital
In Brazil, the number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 400,000, the second-highest in the world
Sri Lanka has announced a ban on all public events, including weddings and large religious services, for the next two weeks, as the authorities try to curb the spread of the virus
Portugal will lift lockdown restrictions imposed in January at midnight on all but eight municipalities, after seeing infection rates fall to the lowest level in the European Union
The head of the organising committee for this summer's Olympic Games in Japan said the event could take place behind closed doors with no spectators due to the pandemic.
What's been happening in the UK?
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People arrive at Circus nightclub in Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool, for a Covid safety pilot eventImage caption: People arrive at Circus nightclub in Bramley-Moore Dock, Liverpool, for a Covid safety pilot event
We are going to be bringing our live page to a close soon so here's a reminder of some of today's coronavirus developments:
Coronavirus infections in the UK have dropped back to levels seen at the end of last summer with around one in 1,000 people infected, ONS data suggests
It comes as England's vaccine rollout is extended to the over-40s and 90% of over-45s have received at least one jab
Surge testing is under way in the London borough of Redbridge after two cases of the South Africa variant were discovered
People in NI have been enjoying lockdown easing to allow shops, pubs, restaurants. gyms and cafes to reopen
Protima Singh, who is managing operations on the ground for the International Federation of Red Cross, told BBC World News that the situation was very critical with so many people becoming infected with coronavirus.
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Video caption: India Covid cases: ‘It’s like being hit by a tsunami’India Covid cases: ‘It’s like being hit by a tsunami’
Smiles as shops and bars reopen in Northern Ireland
There are plenty of smiling faces in Northern Ireland today as shops and bars reopened after a four-month Covid-19 lockdown.
Friends toasted their new freedoms in the spring sunshine while shoppers queued to bag their must-have items.
Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog says it is offering
free Covid-19 tests for pets whose owners
have had coronavirus.
The watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor,
says it is providing the
tests in 15 cities across Russia, including Moscow, as part of its
efforts to collect information on the prevalence of Covid-19 among animals.
It says that the data will
allow scientists to study the likelihood of animal-to-animal transmission
as well as animal-to-human transmission.
Last month, Rosselkhoznadzor announced it had
registered "the world's first" Covid-19 vaccine
for animals, called Carnivac-Cov.
The watchdog's deputy
head Konstantin Savenkov
said at the time that the jab
had undergone clinical
trials on dogs, cats, mink and other animals - all
of which he said had developed antibodies to the virus.
The first batch of 10,000
doses of Carnivac-Cov is to go on sale in early May, the state RIA Novosti news
agency has reported.
According to the World Organisation
for Animal Health (OIE), several animal species have demonstrated
susceptibility to Covid-19, including following transmission
from infected humans.
It identified farmed mink as
being particularly susceptible to the virus and says there have been some cases
of the animals transmitting the virus back to humans.
People arrested in India over fake remdesivir injections
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Seven people have been arrested in India for allegedly selling fake remdesivir injections, Delhi police said.
Remdesivir is an antiviral drug - originally developed to treat Ebola - that showed promising early results.
However, in October 2020, the World Health Organization advised against its use for Covid, saying that it "appeared to have little or no effect on hospitalised Covid".
Police got a tip-off and two of the group were arrested.
During interrogation, they admitted that they were selling the fake injections on a higher price as its demand was shooting up due to the Covid crisis. Further raids were then made.
A total of 198 vials of fake remdesivir, one packing machine and 3,000 empty vials to be used in packing of remdesivir were recovered, police said.
There were another 3,500 deaths nationwide and nearly 400 in Delhi - a record for the capital.
African students caught up in India's Covid crisis share their views
India has registered more than 18 million Covid-19 cases and at least 200,000 deaths, amid an unfolding humanitarian disaster.
The BBC's Aaron Akinyemi spoke to three African students from Zambia, South Sudan and Nigeria who have been caught up in India's pandemic.
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Dementia patient who opposes vaccines should not be given jab, says judge
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The judge was given evidence that the woman would need to be restrained or sedated to be vaccinatedImage caption: The judge was given evidence that the woman would need to be restrained or sedated to be vaccinated
An 85-year-old woman with dementia who has a long-standing opposition to vaccines should not be given the Covid jab, a judge has ruled.
Mr Justice Hayden in the Court of Protection - where judges consider issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions - was asked to make the ruling by the woman's appointed lawyer.
The court heard much of her cognitive function had gone. She had never married and had no children.
The woman, who cannot be identified but who is a former secretary at a factory in London, had been a long-term opponent of vaccines and would need to be restrained before being given an injection, the court was told.
The judge said any attempt to restrain her and give her the vaccine would create "a traumatic and disturbing scenario" for her, for staff and other residents.
“Although much of her cognitive function may have gone, her autonomy, and her own sense of it, continues," Mr Justice Hayden said, adding that it "must be respected".
Surge testing in Redbridge after South Africa variant found
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Surge testing is to be deployed in Redbridge after the identification of two cases of the Covid variant first found in South Africa.
NHS Test and Trace will work with the local council to offer additional testing and genomic sequencing in the IG1 and IG6 postcode areas, as well as small parts of IG5 and IG7.
Everybody aged 11 and over who lives or works in these postcodes is strongly encouraged to take a PCR test, whether they are showing symptoms or not.
The confirmed cases, which are not being linked, are self-isolating and their contacts have been identified, the Department of Health says.
That brings the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test to 127,517.
There were also 2,381 new infections reported in the last 24 hours.
Girl sues school, claiming face masks cause 'serious harm'
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The girl's legal case argues the face mask policy could cause "serious harm"Image caption: The girl's legal case argues the face mask policy could cause "serious harm"
A 12-year-old girl is suing her school in Sheffield to stop it "requiring or encouraging" the use of face masks.
Her lawyers claim the masks policy “risks causing children serious harm” in terms of their mental and physical health.
But the Tapton Academy School Trust, which runs the school, says it only encourages mask-wearing in line with government policy and only one pupil out of 1,000 has complained.
The girl, known only as AB, has been exempted from wearing a mask but maintains the policy on masks could cause "long-term" harm.
Representing AB, Francis Hoar said the school had failed to gather evidence on the effectiveness of masks and said there was "no evidence, effectively" that masks work in preventing transmission of the virus.
Although AB is exempt, she is still "faced with a school environment" in which mask-wearing is enforced "aggressively", Mr Hoar said. He said the risk of the virus spreading was "lower" in schools.
The trust denied enforcing the wearing of masks and added that one in 10 of its staff have caught Covid-19 since August 2020.
It said that if it was prevented from encouraging children to wear masks, it could face further legal action from pupils who supported the policy.
'An amazing place to be right now'
Annabel Rackham
BBC Newsbeat reporter
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A queue has formed outside Bramley Moore Dock ahead of the eventImage caption: A queue has formed outside Bramley Moore Dock ahead of the event
Our reporter Annabel Rackham is at Bramley Moore Dock where 3,000 people are taking part in a trial event to test if the return of clubbing will cause an increase in transmission of Covid-19.
A little earlier she sent us this:
I’m at Bramley Moore Dock – there’s not much here apart from a massive warehouse.
It’s the calm before the storm right now, because in the next hour 3,000 people are going to be coming through these doors.
It’s like a normal festival set up – you’ve got your food tents, medical team, security staff.
Except it’s not normal, because it’s the first official clubbing event in the UK in more than a year.
There’s so much excitement around the venue – Yousef who is one of the organisers and DJs is already out on the decks, which are in front of me – he’ll be headlining tonight and welcoming guests in the first hour.
There’s a lot of hope and it’s an amazing place to be right now.
Teletext Holidays faces court over unpaid refunds
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Teletext Holidays faces legal action unless it pays back £7m to customers whose holidays were cancelled owing to the pandemic, a watchdog has said.
Complaints suggested people were not receiving refunds they were owed within 14 days, as required by law, for package holidays that were cancelled.
The Competition and Markets Authority said the delay was "unacceptable".
Teletext Holidays says it has "provided evidence of why the refund process has been delayed" as well as "real time plans on how and when we can refund all customers".
A statement says the company is "extremely disappointed with today's CMA announcement that seemingly ignores the reality of the challenges we face through no fault of our own".
England's recording of its lowest coronavirus case numbers since September proves the government's roadmap out of lockdown is working, according to one expert.
Paul Hunter, professor in medicine from the University of East Anglia, says: "What makes this week's results particularly important is that this would be the first week when there would be any evidence that the relaxation of 12 April would have had a negative impact on the epidemic.
"That there is in fact no evidence of an increased transmission risk is reassuring that, for the time being at least, it looks like the current road map is still on target."
The ONS estimated just 1-in-1010 people in England would have tested positive for Covid in the week up to 24 April.
However, Rowland Kao, professor of data science at the University of Edinburgh, says that while the "continued decline is good news and should be celebrated", the ONS survey does not yet "provide us with more information about what recent changes in restrictions are doing".
Thirteen infections are linked to the Tan Tock Seng HospitalImage caption: Thirteen infections are linked to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore is experiencing a rare coronavirus outbreak which has resulted in a hospital locking down four wards.
There had been almost no local transmission in Singapore for months, but 16 infections were reported on Thursday and another nine today.
Thirteen are linked to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, one of the city-state's biggest, where a Filipino nurse who had been fully vaccinated developed symptoms earlier this week.
Four of the wards have now been locked down.
The emergence of new virus clusters is a "worrying trend", Health Minister Gan Kim Yong told reporters at a virtual press conference.
"There is clearly a heightened risk of infection now in the community," he added.
The city of 5.7 million has reported about 61,000 cases so far and 30 deaths.
Sweden pushes back vaccination target by three weeks
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Sweden has announced it
will take three weeks longer than expected to offer all adults
their first Covid-19 jab after it decided not to use the
Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
This means there are not enough vaccine supplies to meet the mid-August
target. The government is now aiming for 5 September, Health Minister
Lena Hallengren said.
The country's health authority has said under-65s should
not get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to reports of
extremely rare blood clots.
Sweden has not requested deliveries of Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the EU, the country's vaccine
coordinator said.
Sweden tried to avoid imposing rules when other countries were in lockdown, but it recently passed emergency laws giving the government the power to impose coronavirus-related curbs for the first time.
The country has recorded more than 14,000 deaths - far more than its Scandinavian neighbours.
Japanese cruise ship turns back after passenger tests positive for Covid
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A Japanese luxury cruise is returning to port after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19.
The Asuka II is carrying 295 passengers and 425 crew members. It will reach Yokohama tomorrow around noon, an NYK Cruises spokeswoman said.
The infected passenger tested negative prior to the cruise, but then tested positive on board on Thursday, she said.
They are stable and are isolating in a cabin, NYK said in a statement, adding that only one other person had been in close contact.
The ship was due to stop in Aomori and Hokkaido, returning to port on 5 May.
In February last year, hundreds of people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship became infected with Covid-19 while it was held in quarantine off the port of Yokohama. A total of 14 people lost their lives.
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A total of 386,452 new cases were reported today - the biggest one-day increase on record for any country.
There were another 3,500 deaths nationwide and nearly 400 in Delhi - a record for the capital
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In Brazil, the number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 400,000, the second-highest in the world
- Sri Lanka has announced a ban on all public events, including weddings and large religious services, for the next two weeks, as the authorities try to curb the spread of the virus
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The head of the organising committee for this summer's Olympic Games in Japan said the event could take place behind closed doors with no spectators due to the pandemic.
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People in NI have been enjoying lockdown easing to allow shops, pubs, restaurants. gyms and cafes to reopen
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What's been happening around the world?
Here are some of the biggest developments from around the world today:
What's been happening in the UK?
We are going to be bringing our live page to a close soon so here's a reminder of some of today's coronavirus developments:
India Covid cases: ‘It’s like being hit by a tsunami’
A second wave of coronavirus is sweeping through India overwhelming hospitals, morgues and crematoria.
Protima Singh, who is managing operations on the ground for the International Federation of Red Cross, told BBC World News that the situation was very critical with so many people becoming infected with coronavirus.
Video content
Smiles as shops and bars reopen in Northern Ireland
There are plenty of smiling faces in Northern Ireland today as shops and bars reopened after a four-month Covid-19 lockdown.
Friends toasted their new freedoms in the spring sunshine while shoppers queued to bag their must-have items.
You can see more scenes from across NI in our picture gallery.
Russia ‘offering free Covid-19 tests for pets’
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Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog says it is offering free Covid-19 tests for pets whose owners have had coronavirus.
The watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, says it is providing the tests in 15 cities across Russia, including Moscow, as part of its efforts to collect information on the prevalence of Covid-19 among animals.
It says that the data will allow scientists to study the likelihood of animal-to-animal transmission as well as animal-to-human transmission.
Last month, Rosselkhoznadzor announced it had registered "the world's first" Covid-19 vaccine for animals, called Carnivac-Cov.
The watchdog's deputy head Konstantin Savenkov said at the time that the jab had undergone clinical trials on dogs, cats, mink and other animals - all of which he said had developed antibodies to the virus.
The first batch of 10,000 doses of Carnivac-Cov is to go on sale in early May, the state RIA Novosti news agency has reported.
According to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), several animal species have demonstrated susceptibility to Covid-19, including following transmission from infected humans.
It identified farmed mink as being particularly susceptible to the virus and says there have been some cases of the animals transmitting the virus back to humans.
People arrested in India over fake remdesivir injections
Seven people have been arrested in India for allegedly selling fake remdesivir injections, Delhi police said.
Remdesivir is an antiviral drug - originally developed to treat Ebola - that showed promising early results.
However, in October 2020, the World Health Organization advised against its use for Covid, saying that it "appeared to have little or no effect on hospitalised Covid".
Police got a tip-off and two of the group were arrested.
During interrogation, they admitted that they were selling the fake injections on a higher price as its demand was shooting up due to the Covid crisis. Further raids were then made.
A total of 198 vials of fake remdesivir, one packing machine and 3,000 empty vials to be used in packing of remdesivir were recovered, police said.
A second wave of the virus is ravaging parts of India, with 386,452 new cases reported on Friday - the biggest one-day increase on record for any country.
There were another 3,500 deaths nationwide and nearly 400 in Delhi - a record for the capital.
African students caught up in India's Covid crisis share their views
India has registered more than 18 million Covid-19 cases and at least 200,000 deaths, amid an unfolding humanitarian disaster.
The BBC's Aaron Akinyemi spoke to three African students from Zambia, South Sudan and Nigeria who have been caught up in India's pandemic.
Video content
Dementia patient who opposes vaccines should not be given jab, says judge
An 85-year-old woman with dementia who has a long-standing opposition to vaccines should not be given the Covid jab, a judge has ruled.
Mr Justice Hayden in the Court of Protection - where judges consider issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions - was asked to make the ruling by the woman's appointed lawyer.
The court heard much of her cognitive function had gone. She had never married and had no children.
The woman, who cannot be identified but who is a former secretary at a factory in London, had been a long-term opponent of vaccines and would need to be restrained before being given an injection, the court was told.
The judge said any attempt to restrain her and give her the vaccine would create "a traumatic and disturbing scenario" for her, for staff and other residents.
“Although much of her cognitive function may have gone, her autonomy, and her own sense of it, continues," Mr Justice Hayden said, adding that it "must be respected".
Surge testing in Redbridge after South Africa variant found
Surge testing is to be deployed in Redbridge after the identification of two cases of the Covid variant first found in South Africa.
NHS Test and Trace will work with the local council to offer additional testing and genomic sequencing in the IG1 and IG6 postcode areas, as well as small parts of IG5 and IG7.
Everybody aged 11 and over who lives or works in these postcodes is strongly encouraged to take a PCR test, whether they are showing symptoms or not.
The confirmed cases, which are not being linked, are self-isolating and their contacts have been identified, the Department of Health says.
Read more about surge testing here.
How many people have been vaccinated in the UK?
The UK has given a total of 48,748,962 coronavirus vaccines, government daily figures show.
That's 34,216,087 first doses and 14,532,875 second doses.
You can find out when you will get your vaccine here.
BreakingUK records 15 coronavirus deaths
There have been a further 15 Covid-related deaths in the UK, according to the government's daily figures.
That brings the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test to 127,517.
There were also 2,381 new infections reported in the last 24 hours.
Girl sues school, claiming face masks cause 'serious harm'
A 12-year-old girl is suing her school in Sheffield to stop it "requiring or encouraging" the use of face masks.
Her lawyers claim the masks policy “risks causing children serious harm” in terms of their mental and physical health.
But the Tapton Academy School Trust, which runs the school, says it only encourages mask-wearing in line with government policy and only one pupil out of 1,000 has complained.
The girl, known only as AB, has been exempted from wearing a mask but maintains the policy on masks could cause "long-term" harm.
Representing AB, Francis Hoar said the school had failed to gather evidence on the effectiveness of masks and said there was "no evidence, effectively" that masks work in preventing transmission of the virus.
Although AB is exempt, she is still "faced with a school environment" in which mask-wearing is enforced "aggressively", Mr Hoar said. He said the risk of the virus spreading was "lower" in schools.
The trust denied enforcing the wearing of masks and added that one in 10 of its staff have caught Covid-19 since August 2020.
It said that if it was prevented from encouraging children to wear masks, it could face further legal action from pupils who supported the policy.
'An amazing place to be right now'
Annabel Rackham
BBC Newsbeat reporter
Our reporter Annabel Rackham is at Bramley Moore Dock where 3,000 people are taking part in a trial event to test if the return of clubbing will cause an increase in transmission of Covid-19.
A little earlier she sent us this:
I’m at Bramley Moore Dock – there’s not much here apart from a massive warehouse.
It’s the calm before the storm right now, because in the next hour 3,000 people are going to be coming through these doors.
It’s like a normal festival set up – you’ve got your food tents, medical team, security staff.
Except it’s not normal, because it’s the first official clubbing event in the UK in more than a year.
There’s so much excitement around the venue – Yousef who is one of the organisers and DJs is already out on the decks, which are in front of me – he’ll be headlining tonight and welcoming guests in the first hour.
There’s a lot of hope and it’s an amazing place to be right now.
Teletext Holidays faces court over unpaid refunds
Teletext Holidays faces legal action unless it pays back £7m to customers whose holidays were cancelled owing to the pandemic, a watchdog has said.
Complaints suggested people were not receiving refunds they were owed within 14 days, as required by law, for package holidays that were cancelled.
The Competition and Markets Authority said the delay was "unacceptable".
Teletext Holidays says it has "provided evidence of why the refund process has been delayed" as well as "real time plans on how and when we can refund all customers".
A statement says the company is "extremely disappointed with today's CMA announcement that seemingly ignores the reality of the challenges we face through no fault of our own".
Read more on this story here
Covid case drop shows 'roadmap is on target'
England's recording of its lowest coronavirus case numbers since September proves the government's roadmap out of lockdown is working, according to one expert.
Paul Hunter, professor in medicine from the University of East Anglia, says: "What makes this week's results particularly important is that this would be the first week when there would be any evidence that the relaxation of 12 April would have had a negative impact on the epidemic.
"That there is in fact no evidence of an increased transmission risk is reassuring that, for the time being at least, it looks like the current road map is still on target."
The ONS estimated just 1-in-1010 people in England would have tested positive for Covid in the week up to 24 April.
However, Rowland Kao, professor of data science at the University of Edinburgh, says that while the "continued decline is good news and should be celebrated", the ONS survey does not yet "provide us with more information about what recent changes in restrictions are doing".
Read more: Covid-19 infections in UK back to late summer levels - ONS
Where can I go on holiday in the UK?
With the bank holiday weekend coming up, you may have thoughts of getting away in the UK.
So here is a reminder of the rules for domestic travel.
If you live in England, Scotland or Wales you are free to travel around and between each country.
Currently, you should not travel in or out of Northern Ireland unless it is essential to do so. These regulations will be reviewed on 13 May.
In England and Wales, self-contained accommodation is open but only to be used by a single household bubble.
Welsh hotels, B&Bs and hostels can open if they have en-suites and provide room service.
In Scotland, tourist accommodation can open but different households must not share self-contained accommodation.
You can find more information here.
Singapore hit by rare Covid outbreak
Singapore is experiencing a rare coronavirus outbreak which has resulted in a hospital locking down four wards.
There had been almost no local transmission in Singapore for months, but 16 infections were reported on Thursday and another nine today.
Thirteen are linked to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, one of the city-state's biggest, where a Filipino nurse who had been fully vaccinated developed symptoms earlier this week.
Four of the wards have now been locked down.
The emergence of new virus clusters is a "worrying trend", Health Minister Gan Kim Yong told reporters at a virtual press conference.
"There is clearly a heightened risk of infection now in the community," he added.
The city of 5.7 million has reported about 61,000 cases so far and 30 deaths.
Sweden pushes back vaccination target by three weeks
Sweden has announced it will take three weeks longer than expected to offer all adults their first Covid-19 jab after it decided not to use the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
This means there are not enough vaccine supplies to meet the mid-August target. The government is now aiming for 5 September, Health Minister Lena Hallengren said.
The country's health authority has said under-65s should not get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to reports of extremely rare blood clots.
Sweden has not requested deliveries of Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the EU, the country's vaccine coordinator said.
Sweden tried to avoid imposing rules when other countries were in lockdown, but it recently passed emergency laws giving the government the power to impose coronavirus-related curbs for the first time.
The country has recorded more than 14,000 deaths - far more than its Scandinavian neighbours.
Japanese cruise ship turns back after passenger tests positive for Covid
A Japanese luxury cruise is returning to port after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19.
The Asuka II is carrying 295 passengers and 425 crew members. It will reach Yokohama tomorrow around noon, an NYK Cruises spokeswoman said.
The infected passenger tested negative prior to the cruise, but then tested positive on board on Thursday, she said.
They are stable and are isolating in a cabin, NYK said in a statement, adding that only one other person had been in close contact.
The ship was due to stop in Aomori and Hokkaido, returning to port on 5 May.
In February last year, hundreds of people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship became infected with Covid-19 while it was held in quarantine off the port of Yokohama. A total of 14 people lost their lives.