Aitana Forcén Vázquez, the Valencian trapped on the ‘Hondius’, has posted a message on Facebook stating that “I am fine and the patients have been evacuated. The atmosphere on the ship remains positive and we are taking care of each other.” In the shared text, the oceanographer expresses her gratitude for all the messages received by her family: “Thank you for all the messages and affection. I have received them and appreciate them very much.”
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She confirms in this post that “the indicated measures and protocols are being followed to care for the health and well-being of everyone on board.” She herself advises her followers to follow the information being provided through official channels.
The Valencian oceanographer Aitana Forcén-Vázquez is one of the fourteen Spanish people traveling on the cruise ship where a possible hantavirus outbreak has been declared, which has caused three deaths during its journey through the South Atlantic.
Forcén-Vázquez is an oceanographer with international experience, polar guide, researcher, and scientific advisor, graduated in Marine Sciences from the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV) in 2008 and earned her doctorate in 2015 in Physical Oceanography at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, according to the UCV curriculum.
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Technical stop in Valencia of the plane transporting a passenger to Amsterdam
Government sources explained this Thursday that the person with symptoms who was on a plane in Gran Canaria since yesterday has been transferred to Amsterdam on a new medicalized plane different from the one initially in Gran Canaria. The aircraft that remained in Gran Canaria later departed without passengers or patients on board, only with the crew, making a technical stop in Valencia to refuel before continuing to Rotterdam. The same sources explain that at all times, the operation is being carried out “following established health and safety protocols,” in coordination with the competent authorities and the company responsible for the transfer.
Before sharing her own testimony on social media, it was yesterday the Health Minister, Marciano Gómez, who stated that the crew member was fine. According to him, the Director General of Public Health, Begoña Comendador, had tried to contact her, and the central government, through the Ministry of Health, had informed the regional government that she was in good health.
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