Spanish authorities are preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew from a cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak as the vessel heads for Spain’s Canary Islands. Multiple outlets report the ship is expected to arrive in the port area of Granadilla on the island of Tenerife sometime over the weekend, with expected arrival dates ranging from Saturday to Sunday. Spain’s emergency services chief Virginia Barcones says the evacuees will be taken to a completely isolated, cordoned-off area once the ship docks. The government also indicates that passengers will be repatriated to their home countries after arrival. Several sources say the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send aircraft to evacuate their citizens. Reporting describes the response as careful and controlled, with health officials planning to manage passengers and crew under isolation procedures. Details on confirmed cases and specific medical measures aboard the ship are not consistently provided across the articles summarized here.
Spain prepares to evacuate passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship to Canary Islands
Spanish authorities are preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew from a cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak as the vessel heads for Spain’s Canary Islands. Multiple outlets rep...
- Spanish authorities prepare to receive more than 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.
- The ship is expected to arrive at Granadilla/tenoriffe in the Canary Islands around Saturday or Sunday.
- Evacuees will be moved to an isolated, cordoned-off area after the ship docks.
- Spain plans to repatriate passengers to their countries of origin following arrival.
- The U.S. and the U.K. are reported to have arranged planes to evacuate their citizens.
Ship is anchored off Tenerife in the Canary Islands; passengers will be evacuated through Monday
5 months agoSpanish health officials says all 146 passengers remain asymptomatic The government has begun the evacuation of the first passengers from the MV Hondius ship which arrived in Tenerife this morning, ending a journey that started in southern Argentina on 1 April.A small group of passengers, all Spanish nationals, is now headed to Tenerife’s port of Granadilla, Spain’s health ministry said. Continue reading...
5 months agoSpain has begun the evacuation process of passengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship anchored near Tenerife on Sunday, with health officials boarding the boat to conduct a final check and begin disembarking passengers, Spain’s Health Ministry said. Spanish nationals will be the first to disembark on small boats in groups of five and taken to […]
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5 months agoSpanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The post Spain Prepares for Evacuations as Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Heads for Canary Islands appeared first on Breitbart.
5 months agoHealth authorities across four continents are trying to track down and monitor passengers who disembarked the ship before the deadly outbreak was detected.
5 months agoMADRID — Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise shipheaded for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The vessel is expected to arrive Sunday at the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, and passengers will be taken to a “completely isolated, cordoned-off area,” said the head of Spain’s emergency services, Virginia Barcones. Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens from the cruise ship. READ: 38 Filipinos among crew of […]...Keep on reading: Spain preps evacuations as hantavirus-hit ship heads for Canary Islands
5 months agoThe Hantavirus striken cruise ship is edging closer to docking at Spain's Canary Islands, with local authorities working on plans to deal with those board.
5 months agoThe Hantavirus striken cruise ship is edging closer to docking at Spain's Canary Islands, with local authorities working on plans to deal with those board.
5 months agoThe Hantavirus striken cruise ship is edging closer to docking at Spain's Canary Islands, with local authorities working on plans to deal with those board.
5 months agoSpanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.
5 months agoThe World Health Organization considers the risk to the wider public from the outbreak as low.
5 months ago“They will arrive at a completely isolated, cordoned-off area,” said Virginia Barcones, Spain’s head of emergency services, on Thursday.
5 months agoPassengers aboard a cruise ship affected by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will start being flown to their countries of origin after the vessel arrives in the Canary Islands on Sunday, the Spanish government said on Friday. The MV Hondius is scheduled to reach the port of Granadilla on the island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, on Sunday morning, cabinet minister Angel Victor Torres told journalists. “That same day, we will have planes available and will be able to start getting these...
5 months agoMADRID — Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The vessel is expected to reach the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, on Saturday or Sunday. “They will arrive at a completely isolated, cordoned-off area,” said Virginia Barcones, Spain's head of emergency services, on Thursday. The MV Hondius is a Dutch-flagged vessel and Dutch officials said Friday they were also in close contact with the ship's owner and authorities of countries whose citizens are on board. The United States has agreed to send a plane to the Canary Islands to repatriate its 17 citizens from the cruise ship. The British government also said it will charter a plane to evacuate the nearly two dozen British nationals onboard. At least three passengers have died , and several other people are sick. The World Health Organization considers the risk to the wider public from the outbreak as low, and
5 months agoThe vessel is expected to reach the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, on Saturday or Sunday (local time).
5 months agoVessel is expected to reach the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, on Saturday or Sunday
5 months agoSpanish authorities are preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.
5 months agoThe vessel is expected to reach the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, on Saturday or Sunday
5 months agoSpanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands
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