A female passenger who was on board the Diamond Princess has become the fifth person to die from coronavirus on the cruise ship.
The quarantined cruise liner, off Japan's Yokohama port, has seen more than 600 coronavirus infections.
The woman who has died is Japanese and in her 70s, reports said.
On Sunday it was confirmed that four British people who arrived at a UK quarantine centre from the Japanese cruise ship had tested positive for coronavirus.
Thirty-two passengers arrived at the Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral over the weekend after spending two weeks quarantined on The Diamond Princess.
Four of these tested positive for coronavirus strain COVID-19, it was confirmed.
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Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England said on Sunday: “Four further patients in England have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to thirteen.
“The virus was passed on in the Diamond Princess cruise ship and the patients are being transferred from Arrowe Park to specialist NHS infection centres.”
The Diamond Princess liner was carrying 3,700 people, including 78 Britons, when it was quarantined in Yokohama on February 5 after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the bug.
A British vlogger spent more than two weeks aboard the ship in Japan has been creating videos about the conditions on the Diamond Princess after it was forced to go into lockdown in Yomoha.
David Abel and wife Sally, from Northamptonshire, were transferred off the ship and taken to hospital in Japan last week, initially with fears they had contracted the deadly 2019-nCOV strain.
More than 82,000 people across the global have contracted the new strain with 2,800 having died.
