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Hantavirus latest:French and US tourists test positive for deadly virus as evacuated British passengers arrive in UK

The Independent·Dan Haygarth·24 days ago
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Passengers from hantavirus-hit ship spend first night at isolation facility British passengers evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived at an isolation facility after their repatriation flight landed in the UK. A chartered Titan Airways flight carrying them departed from Tenerife ’s south airport on Sunday evening and later arrived at Manchester Airport. The 20 British passengers, who were tested for hantavirus before getting on the flight, have now been taken to isolate at Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside , which was the UK’s initial Covid quarantine site. The MV Hondius arrived in Tenerife on Sunday morning, with Spanish authorities beginning evacuations of the ship by nationality and ferrying passengers to a port by small boat. A French national aboard the cruise ship started developing symptoms of the disease as he was being repatriated to France on a chartered flight from Tenerife to Paris, said the country’s prime minister, Sebastiane Lecornu.…

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