Passengers will not be allowed off the MV Hondius , location for an outbreak of hantavirus , until it reaches the Canary Islands – 900 miles northeast of its present location, Cape Verde . The voyage is expected to take three days. Three people who were on the voyage from Argentina to Cape Verde have died and a British man is in hospital in South Africa. The health authorities in Cape Verde have refused to allow the non-symptomatic passengers and crew to disembark. Dr Maria van Kerkhove, director for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention at the World Health Organisation (WHO), has been explaining the latest thinking on BBC Breakfast about the outbreak aboard the MV Hondius. She told the programme the two crew members – one British, one Dutch – who are currently experiencing acute respiratory symptoms will be flown to Europe as soon as possible.…