'But the remaining three were not in close contact with infected people and tested negative in Japan.'
They included the last batch of Japanese passengers to leave the ship while some foreign passengers were still waiting on board for chartered aircraft to be sent by their governments. Around 970 passengers disembarked earlier this week.
Health minister Katsunobu Kato on Saturday defended Japan's on-board quarantine, telling a TV programme there was no medical facility large enough to admit more than 3,000 people at once. One of them had left for Australia without confirming Japanese test results, while two others were in close contact with infected people.
Kato also confirmed that a Japanese hospital on Saturday used the anti-influenza medication Avigan, also known as Favipiravir, to treat a patient infected with the virus.
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