Why is Arrowe Park being used for hantavirus quarantine? Watch: Passengers evacuated from hantavirus outbreak ship in Tenerife The 22 passengers evacuated from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship have arrived on Merseyside to isolate in a hospital block last used to quarantine Britons who travelled back from China at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Built to house medical students and NHS key workers, the site at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral was last used as an isolation facility at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Reuters The accommodation block was last used to house Britons returning from China at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic The 800-bed hospital, one of the larger acute sites in the North West, sits across a 15-acre site in Merseyside on the Wirral Penninsula. Each of the 22 passengers - none displaying any of the symptoms of the virus - are staying inside the multi-storey accommodating block known as the Frontis building.…