The authorities of Switzerland have confirmed a case of hantavirus in their country, amid a health crisis due to an outbreak of this pathogen on the cruise ship Hondius. The man is hospitalized in Zurich, where he is receiving medical care.
The luxury cruise ship Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, will finally dock in the Canary Islands, where it is scheduled to arrive next Sunday at twelve noon with more than 140 people on board, who do not show symptoms of the disease. The three sick people on the ship, one of them the doctor and in serious condition, were evacuated yesterday on two medical planes and transferred to Amsterdam, where they are receiving the necessary medical care.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and the Minister of Health, Mónica García, will hold a press conference starting at 13:15 at the Moncloa Complex, following the monitoring meeting chaired today by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to address the WHO’s request to the Government of Spain to host the vessel MV Hondius in the Canary Islands, in compliance with international law and the humanitarian spirit.
The Ministry of Health accepted last night the request of the World Health Organization (WHO) and will finally host the cruise ship Hondius, where a hantavirus outbreak has affected seven people, three of whom have died. The ship will dock in the Canary Islands after the evacuation of the three people still on board who show symptoms. Among them is the crew doctor, who is in serious condition and will be evacuated on a hospital plane in the coming hours.
The Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday night that the cruise ship ‘Hondius’, where up to seven hantavirus infections may have occurred – three of them unconfirmed – will dock in the Canary Islands after the evacuation of the three people still on board who show symptoms.
The investigating court number 3 of Esplugues has ordered provisional imprisonment for the accused of killing a 41-year-old woman last Saturday in the Finestrelles neighborhood of the municipality. The man, of Moroccan nationality, slit the victim’s throat, who was of Chinese nationality, after stabbing her several times in the abdomen and chest. The attack, according to initial hypotheses, was random. The victim was calmly walking down the street where she lived when she was attacked by the assailant without any prior relationship.
The Dutch Government has sent two medicalized air ambulances to Cape Verde that are evacuating the two passengers from the luxury cruise ship ‘Hondius’ who are in the most serious condition and supposedly infected with hantavirus, as well as a third who has begun to show symptoms, according to sources close to the matter. The three patients will be transferred to the Netherlands to receive medical care.
When it was launched in Croatia, neither the builder nor the owner of the Hondius imagined that its name would become globally known for something so undesirable. The idea, when the keel was laid, was for the ship to stand out for having a reinforced hull capable of breaking ice up to eighty centimeters thick. That has nothing to do with conventional cruises.
A passenger on the Mv Hondius, the cruise ship where three people have died from a possible hantavirus outbreak and which will remain in quarantine for two weeks, has explained what the situation is like on board. Jack Rosmarin, a travel influencer with more than 30,000 followers on TikTok, tearfully explained how the approximately 150 souls traveling on the ship are feeling. “We are not stories, we are not headlines,” is his headline.
The Canary ports are awaiting the company Oceanwide Expeditions, which is facing a serious health situation after the death of three passengers on board, to request docking after announcing its intention to sail from Cape Verde – where it is currently anchored – to Las Palmas or Tenerife to disembark the passengers, carry out the necessary checks and medical procedures.