Passengers leave hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife as WHO says outbreak ‘not another COVID’ The vessel arrived off the Canary Islands after weeks at sea at the centre of an international public health response triggered by a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is leading a team in Tenerife, stressed that the risk to the wider public remains low. “ This is not another COVID, ” he told journalists during a media stakeout on Sunday, adding that “ the risk to the public is low ” and that people “shouldn’t be scared and they shouldn’t panic.” There have been eight cases linked to the ship of which six cases have been laboratory-confirmed as hantavirus infections as of Friday, with all identified as Andes virus (ANDV), although no new deaths had been recorded since 2 May.…