Hantavirus figures updated - as cruise ship at centre of outbreak nears the Canary Islands
WHO said 5 of 8 sick passengers tested positive for the Andes strain, and officials are repatriating travelers while calling the public risk minimal.
- The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, carrying around 150 people, is expected to arrive on Sunday at the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife for passenger repatriation. Spanish authorities will transfer passengers to the airport via smaller vessel, as the ship will not be allowed to dock.
- World Health Organization officials confirmed on Thursday that five of eight people sickened on the vessel were infected with the Andes strain of the virus. Three passengers have died since the ship departed Argentina on April 1.
- WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told reporters the risk to the general population remains "absolutely low," noting that even passengers sharing cabins with infected individuals often do not contract the disease.
- Jorge Marichal, president of Tenerife's hotels association, Ashotel, questioned the decision to bring the cruise ship to the Canary Islands, noting competing destinations were not considered. Local residents voiced apprehension regarding the arrival.
- Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia said 14 Spanish nationals will quarantine in Madrid, while other passengers return home. UK Health Security Agency Chief Scientific Officer Robin May noted established infection control measures will ensure safe repatriation of British passengers.
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Noticias ao MinutoThe operation on the Canary Islands to disembark and repatriate more than 100 people who are on the ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak started this Sunday, at around 09:30 (local time and in Lisbon). The first group of people, all with masks and full sanitary protection suits, was removed from the ship on a boat that approached the cruise MV Hondius and transferred to the pier of the industrial port of Granadilla, on the island of Teneri…
Federal Officials Say Hantavirus Risk Remains Low as Cruise Ship at Center of Outbreak Docks Near Tenerife
CANARY ISLANDS – Federal health officials are monitoring a rare hantavirus outbreak linked to the M/V Hondius cruise ship, but they are not treating the situation as a broad public health emergency or warning of an expanded outbreak. The ship is now located near Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, where passengers are being screened and [...] The post Federal Officials Say Hantavirus Risk Remains Low as Cruise Ship at Center of Outbreak Docks N…
La Trinchera team updates the situation of the cruiser infected by Hantavirus after its arrival in the Canary Islands
A group of about 30 crew members will remain on board the MV Hondius to drive it to its base port in the Netherlands after landing
Le Journal de Montreal
Le Journal de QuebecRepatriation flights are planned for passengers on board the cruise ship affected by a Hantavirus outbreak.
The international press has put the spotlight on the Canary Islands after the government of Pedro Sánchez has accepted, at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO), to open Spain and specifically the Canary Islands to the cruise of the Hantavirus outbreak, the MV Hondius. Among the media that have unleashed the voice of alarm, stand out The Washington Post, France 24, Daily Mail, The Sun or The Economist. The Washington Post newspaper …
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