Japan confirms 14 coronavirus cases at medical centre - Kyodo

FILE PHOTO: A man, wearing a protective mask following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks inside a subway station in Tokyo, Japan March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Oita prefecture confirmed two new coronavirus infections at a medical centre on Sunday, bringing the total at the facility to 14 and making it a suspected cluster, Kyodo newswire said.

Two female nurses who work at the Oita Medical Center, one in her 20s and another in her 50s, were confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus although they showed only mild symptoms, Kyodo said.