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Australians on-Board MV Hondius to Be Repatriated From Tenerife
Medical staff will accompany the Perth-bound flight, and Queensland and New South Wales passengers will enter quarantine on arrival, officials said.
- On Monday, an Australian government-supported charter flight will evacuate four citizens, one permanent resident, and a New Zealand national from the MV Hondius cruise ship docked in Tenerife, Spain.
- Following an Antarctic voyage, the Hondius arrived in Tenerife after a deadly hantavirus outbreak killed three passengers and infected eight others aboard the vessel.
- Authorities implemented strict, PPE-protected transfer protocols, moving passengers via small boats directly to coaches for transport to their Perth-bound repatriation flight about 20 minutes away.
- Passengers face a 45-day quarantine upon arrival in Australia, as health authorities prepare intense monitoring because hantavirus can incubate for weeks before symptoms appear.
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reassured Tenerife residents that public risk remains low, while infectious diseases expert Professor Paul Griffin noted transmission requires "really intense close contact.
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Five Australians and one New Zealand resident will undergo three weeks of quarantine in Australia after being repatriated from a cruise ship affected by hantavirus, according to the Labor government. The passengers had been travelling aboard the luxury expedition vessel MV Hondius which docked in Tenerife, Spain on May 10. The ship departed Argentina in April 1 before a rare hantavirus outbreak emerged onboard claiming three lives. Hantaviruses…
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Australia to repatriate passengers from Hantavirus-hit cruise ship
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON — The Australian government said on Monday it would repatriate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus, with the passengers to be quarantined after they arrive in the country.
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