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Hantavirus: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?

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The complex operation to repatriate passengers and crew of the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, the MV Hondius, is almost complete. Up to 150 people have started flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands, and the World Health Organization has recommended, but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine once they have landed. Here’s what we know about how different countries are managing quarantine. How did cruise passengers and crew leave the Hantavirus-stricken ship? Passengers wore blue medical suits and breathing masks as they disembarked MV Hondius on to smaller boats, according to observers. Those boats docked at a small industrial port in Tenerife. Evacuees then boarded Spanish army buses and travelled to an airport. A protective board separated drivers from passengers. Evacuees then changed into new protective equipment and pictures showed them on the tarmac being sprayed down by medical officers before boarding repatriation charter flights.…

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