6 Passengers From Hantavirus-Hit Ship Arrive in Australia for 3-Week Quarantine
The six passengers tested negative before departure and will spend at least three weeks in a largely unused COVID-19 quarantine facility.
- Six passengers from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrived Friday in Australia aboard The Gulfstream, landing at RAAF Base Pearce near Perth for a mandatory three-week quarantine; the group includes five Australians and one New Zealand citizen.
- The outbreak occurred aboard the Hondius cruise ship during a voyage from Argentina to the Antarctic and South Atlantic Ocean, where three people have died among the 11 identified hantavirus cases.
- Passengers tested negative for the virus before departing the Netherlands and showed no symptoms, Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said; they will move to the Bullsbrook quarantine facility built for COVID-19.
- Butler said the government is implementing "one of the strongest quarantine arrangements in response to this virus outbreak," while passengers returning to the United States and Britain will primarily quarantine at home instead.
- The Hondius is sailing to the Netherlands for disinfection, as authorities have not decided on additional precautions for the remainder of the 42-day incubation period identified by the World Health Organization.
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Six passengers from a cruiser affected by an outbreak of hantavirus arrived in Australia on Friday for a quarantine that is expected to last at least three weeks.
Six passengers from the tourist ship affected by the hantavirus epidemic arrived in Australia today, where they will stay in ; quarantine for at least three weeks. Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said the government will implement a strict quarantine.
Australia quarantines six after hantavirus-linked cruise ship evacuation
Six passengers evacuated from the Netherlands after exposure aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship have been placed under a three-week quarantine in Australia as authorities monitor a hantavirus outbreak linked to three deaths.
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6 passengers from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia for 3-week quarantine
Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks.
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