Death tolls rise in France and Spainpublished at 13:43 Greenwich Mean Time 7 March 2020
France and Spain have reported an increase in the number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak.
France's ministry of health said two additional deaths had been confirmed in Hauts-de-France and Normandy, bringing the nationwide total to 11.
The ministry said there were now 716 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, an increase of 103 compared with a day earlier.
In Spain, two more deaths - in Vitoria and Madrid - have increased the nationwide total to 10.
The death in a hospital in Vitoria was of a 90-year-old man.
In total, there have been 475 cases recorded in the country, El Pais reports.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Netherlands rose by 60 to 188 on Saturday, the country’s health ministry said. Only one coronavirus death has been reported in the country so far.
Elsewhere, a former passenger of the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship that was quarantined off Yokohama in Japan, has died after contracting coronavirus.
The death is the seventh from the ship, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday.