Evacuation of passengers from virus-hit cruise ship to be completed on Monday
Flights from Tenerife will repatriate passengers from several countries, while the World Health Organization said six cases were confirmed and three people died.
- Spain completes the repatriation of passengers from the Dutch-flagged Hondius today, Monday, with flights from Australia and the Netherlands concluding an international evacuation following a deadly hantavirus outbreak.
- After detecting a cluster of severe respiratory illnesses among 147 passengers and crew on May 3, authorities diverted the vessel to Spain's Canary Islands from Cape Verde on Wednesday at the WHO and European Union's request.
- As of Friday, the WHO reported three deaths and six confirmed cases; one of 17 Americans being repatriated tested positive for the Andes strain, with a second showing mild symptoms.
- Passengers face testing and potential quarantine upon arrival, with WHO director Maria Van Kerkhove recommending a 42-day isolation period; 30 crew members remain aboard to sail to the Netherlands for disinfection.
- Health officials urge calm, noting the virus is far less contagious than COVID-19 and poses little risk to the general public. CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said Sunday, "This is not COVID and we don't want to treat it like COVID.
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The evacuation of the cruise ship MV Hondius to Tenerife was bereaved by the death of an agent of the Civil Guard, victim of a cardiac arrest. The last repatriation operations are due to be completed on Monday.
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avisendanmark.dkAll those remaining on the cruise ship MV “Hondius”, which is linked to an outbreak of hantavirus, will be evacuated on Monday and sent by plane to the Netherlands. There are 22 people. It ...
In a message recorded on board the Dutch ship m/v Hondius, already without passengers or crew members on board, Captain Jan Dobrogowski thanked in the first person the men and women who were on the cruise, both workers and tourists, during this voyage on which an outbreak of hantavirus was recorded. “We spent extremely challenging weeks,” he said. In his message, the captain thanked the passengers and the crew for “spending several weeks on boar…
WRAPUP 1-Evacuation of passengers from virus-hit cruise ship to be completed on Monday
The evacuation of passengers from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will be completed on Monday with flights from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain's health minister has said. One flight from Australia will evacuate six passengers from the Spanish island of Tenerife and another from the Netherlands will take 18 passengers, with both flights also carrying passengers from other countries that did not sen…
The Spanish government said it hoped to complete the evacuations of the Hondius passengers and crew members as quickly as Monday.
The repatriation operation of the occupants of the cruise MV Hondius can be completed this Monday before the scheduled, the Spanish Minister of Territorial Policy, Angel Victor Torres informed. Operation: Chief of the WHO alerts to 'risks' of the USA not to impose quarantine to Americans who left from cruise with outbreak of hantavirus Nineteen nationalities: More than 90 people were evacuated from cruise with outbreak of hantavirus The operatio…
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