Brussels, May 12 (IANS) The European Commission said that it is coordinating and supporting national authorities’ response to a hantavirus outbreak, while the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) assesses the risk to the general population in Europe as very low.Since Spain activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism on May 6, the EU’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre has been facilitating the safe evacuation of people aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, which was anchor…
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Madrid, May 12 (IANS) One of the 14 Spanish evacuees from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius on Sunday has tested preliminarily positive for the virus, Spanish Health Minister Monica Garcia has said. Garcia wrote on X on Monday (local time) that one of the Spanish passengers currently under isolation at Madrid’s Gomez Ulla hospital had tested preliminarily positive in a PCR test conducted upon arrival.”The person remains in isolation, without symptoms and in general good health, under con…
Paris, May 11 (IANS) A French woman who traveled aboard the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius tested positive for the Andes hantavirus during her return to France, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Monday.The woman was among five French nationals evacuated from the cruise ship and repatriated to France on Sunday, developing symptoms during the repatriation flight.The woman’s condition worsened overnight and she was transferred to a specialised infectious disease hospital for treatme…
Washington, May 11 (IANS) An American passenger from a hantavirus-hit Dutch cruise ship has tested positive for the virus, and another has mild symptoms, the US Department of Health and Human Services have announced. All 17 American citizens from the MV Hondius cruise ship are currently en route via an airlift to the United States, with the two travelling in the plane’s biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution, the department wrote in a post on the social platform X.The airlift will f…
Berlin, May 11 (IANS) Four German passengers have been evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius following a Hantavirus outbreak, said German public broadcaster ARD on its news website Tagesschau Monday.After landing in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on Sunday evening, they were met by specialists before being transported to Frankfurt, Xinhua news agency reported.Upon arrival, the passengers will return to their respective home states for quarantine, said the report. One passenger is scheduled to b…
London, May 11 (IANS) Twenty British nationals evacuated from the hantavirus-affected cruise ship MV Hondius were isolated in a northwest England hospital upon their return, as authorities stepped up outbreak containment and monitoring.The passengers landed in Manchester earlier in the day before being transferred by bus to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral, Merseyside, where they will remain under medical observation for 72 hours, Xinhua news agency reported.In a joint statement, local Nationa…
Seoul, May 11 (IANS) North Korea has raised the alarm over the danger posed by the Hantavirus after an outbreak on a foreign cruise ship has killed three passengers, echoing its response to the COVID-19 pandemic years earlier.The Rodong Simnum, the ruling Workers’ Party’s official newspaper, reported Monday on the outbreak of the Andes strain of the virus on a ship sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, describing it as “raising concerns from the international community.”The US Centres for Disease Contr…
Tenerife, May 11 (IANS) Javier Padilla, Spain’s Secretary of State for health, said on social media that the evacuation of passengers and some crew members from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius has been underway as planned, with more than 90 people expected to be evacuated by the end of the day.According to a video released by the official X account of the Spanish Interior Ministry’s General Secretariat for Civil Protection and Emergencies, 49 passengers and crew members from 14 differe…
Madrid, May 11 (IANS) The Embassy of India in Madrid, Spain, stated on Sunday that two Indians who were aboard the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship are safe and asymptomatic.The Dutch-flagged vessel MV Hondius, with around 150 individuals, including two Indian nationals, arrived in Spain on Sunday.In the context of the Hantavirus outbreak, the ship anchored off the coast of the Canary Islands of Spain. The passengers onboard disembarked from the ship in accordance with the protocol established by the …
Tenerife, May 10 (IANS) The first plane carrying Spanish passengers evacuated from the Hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius departed from Spain’s Canary Islands for Madrid on Sunday.Buses operated by Spain’s Military Emergencies Unit transported the evacuees directly from the Port of Granadilla to the runway of Tenerife South Airport under the escort of the Spanish Civil Guard.Under Spain’s emergency deployment plan, the country’s Military Emergencies Unit dispatched buses equipped with sanitar…