Dozens of people from cruise ship struck by hantavirus leave Tenerife

Britons among passengers and crew taken off vessel and put on flights to 10 countries, while France and US later say two people showing symptoms Explainer: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine? Dozens of passengers and crew from countries around the world have been evacuated from a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. British people were among those taken off the ship as part of a two-day operation that began on Sunday in Tenerife. They were put on chartered flights back to the UK, where they will enter hospital quarantine in Merseyside. At about 9pm on Sunday, a plane carrying 22 UK citizens landed in Manchester, it was reported. Spanish passengers wearing blue plastic ponchos and hair coverings had already been taken off the vessel by medical teams in hazmat suits after being screened for the infection. They were then taken by coach to Tenerife airport. The ship arrived in the Canary Islands in the early hours of Sunday carrying 146 people, after three people died of the virus and eight more became ill. No one else onboard the vessel had symptoms, but passengers and crew had been confined to their cabins for days to help halt t