First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Tenerife – Europe live

Spain has begun the evacuation of the first passengers from the MV Hondius ship which arrived in Tenerife on Sunday Passengers begin evacuating cruise ship hit by hantavirus We have some updates from Tenerife, where a small group of Spanish passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has reportedly left on a plane for the Gómez Ulla Central Defense hospital in Madrid. They will be under quarantine when they reach Madrid. Some passengers who left the MV Hondius cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of hantavirus have departed Tenerife by plane and arrived in the Spanish capital of Madrid. 14 Spanish nationals – 13 passengers and one crew member – were the first to disembark and have reportedly arrived in Madrid, where they face mandatory quarantine at a military hospital. The evacuation of most of the ship’s passengers and crew would continue until a final repatriation flight to Australia on Monday, according to Spanish health minister Monica García, who confirmed earlier that all passengers on board were asymptomatic. Five French passengers will be repatriated today, and will be hospitalised for 72 hours for monitoring, after which they will