All passengers evacuated from cruise ship hit by deadly hantavirus | CNN

EDITOR’S NOTE: For the latest updates on this story, follow our live coverage here. All of the passengers of the MV Hondius and some of its crew have been evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, as authorities continue to test people and monitor symptoms of the rare virus that has triggered an international health response. Passengers were seen being ferried from the MV Hondius, anchored at the Port of Granadilla near the Spanish island of Tenerife, to the island on Sunday after the ship arrived earlier in the day carrying 147 people. Evacuations involved 94 passengers of 19 nationalities, according to Spanish health authorities. The last of the passengers left the ship on Monday, some waving goodbye to the vessel before heading to their evacuation flights after more than five weeks at sea. A total number of 122 individuals were repatriated to their home countries and the Netherlands, including 35 crew members and 87 guests, according to the tour operator Oceanwide Expeditions. One of the 17 American passengers who was evacuated from the ship Sunday tested “mildly” positive for the Andes strain of the virus on a PCR test, while a second is showing mild symptoms, the U