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For any copyright, please send me a message.  Japan has announced its first death from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, taking the global total to 1,710. Health minister Katsunobu Kato said the victim was a woman in her 80s who had been in hospital since 1 February, when she was diagnosed with pneumonia, with the COVID-19 diagnosis coming after her death.  The woman was a resident of Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo, but officials have refused to comment on Japanese media reports that she was the mother-in-law of a taxi driver who is also a confirmed case.  There have now been two deaths outside China, with the other coming in the Philippines, with the vast majority of confirmed cases and fatalities still restricted to Hubei province - the epicentre of the outbreak. On Wednesday night, more than 14,800 new cases of the COVID-19, the disease which is caused by the coronavirus, were reported in Hubei.  Health officials there also confirmed 242 new deaths from the flu-like virus - the fastest rise since the pathogen was identified in December.  The latest global figures: More than 14,800 new cases and 242 deaths have been confirmed in China's Hubei province, which is the epicentre of the outbreakHubei alone now has 48,206 confirmed cases, most in the city of Wuhan, with 33,693 being treated in hospital, and 5,647 of them said to be critically illThere have been 60,363 confirmed cases worldwide and 1,370 deaths - all but two in China, with one in Japan and one in the PhilippinesForty-four more people on board the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, which is docked in Japan, have tested positive for COVID-19There are now 218 confirmed cases from the cruise ship - the biggest cluster outside China  There had been optimism that the number of infections was beginning to slow down, with China having reported its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in two weeks on Tuesday. Despite the apparent spike, the World Health Organisation has played down fears that it represented a major shift in the trajectory of the outbreak. Officials said the increase was "largely down to a change in how cases are being diagnosed and reported". Doctors in China can now make clinical diagnoses based on chest imaging, rather than wait for laboratory confirmation, allowing for cases to be confirmed more quickly. It also means suspected cases from previous days and weeks, including some going right back to the end of December, are now being included in the latest updates from Hubei. It means figures from Hubei - including those from Wednesday night - now include confirmed laboratory cases and suspected cases based on the chest imaging tests.  In other developments:The latest UK case took an Uber to hospital and walked into A&E, it has