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Tourist ship with Hantavirus cases arrives in Tenerife

2026-05-10 08:49:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Tourist ship with Hantavirus cases arrives in Tenerife

The MV Hondius tourist ship, which has tested positive for Hantavirus, arrived at the port of Tenerife at 6.30 Albanian time, where it is expected to dock to begin the operation to evacuate passengers and part of the crew.

According to Spanish authorities, none of the passengers currently on board have shown symptoms of infection. However, all will be tested by Spanish health authorities to confirm that they remain asymptomatic, before being transferred to land by small boats.

Enclosed buses will then take them to the island's main airport, about ten minutes away, where they will board flights to their countries of origin. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control announced late Saturday that all passengers on the luxury cruise ship are being considered high-risk contacts as a precautionary measure, as part of an urgent scientific assessment.

Spanish nationals will be the first to disembark, with other nationalities following in groups, government officials said yesterday. Thirty crew members will remain on board and sail to the Netherlands, where the ship will be disinfected.

The ship set sail for Spain on Wednesday from the coast of Cape Verde after the World Health Organization and the European Union urged the country to handle the evacuation of passengers after a cluster of the virus was detected. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, last night, along with Spain's interior, health and territorial policy ministers, to coordinate the ship's arrival./CNA





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