While Canada is planning to evacuate the 255 Canadians from the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo, a U.S. flight has already evacuated American citizens.

China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, now has a confirmed 48,206 cases and 1,310 deaths.

Christopher Lan, a professor at the University of Ottawa, is among 213 evacuees from Wuhan who were flown in on two separate planes Friday over the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The other cases include one from Argentina, five from Australia, 21 from Japan, one from the United Kingdom and eight from the United States.

The Fort Langley man is among 3,700 passengers and crew under a two-week quarantine after 20 people tested positive for the virus, including two Canadians.

Health officials said in the last 24 hours, the U.N. health agency has seen the biggest jump in cases since the start of the epidemic.