UK Flies 10 MV Hondius Passengers Home for 45-Day Hantavirus Monitoring After 3 Deaths
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Updated · BBC.com · May 12
UK Flies 10 MV Hondius Passengers Home for 45-Day Hantavirus Monitoring After 3 Deaths
8 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 12
Ten passengers from Saint Helena and Ascension Island who were aboard the MV Hondius will be flown to the UK to complete self-isolation, with UKHSA saying none has symptoms.
31 evacuees at Arrowe Park Hospital — 20 Britons, one German UK resident and one Japanese passenger among them — are over 24 hours into a 72-hour isolation period while testing and clinical assessments continue.
After discharge on Wednesday, passengers may be told to self-isolate for up to 45 days at home or another arranged location because hantavirus has a long incubation period.
Three people have died after the outbreak, including two confirmed hantavirus cases, while two British nationals with confirmed infections are being treated in the Netherlands and South Africa.
87 passengers have now been repatriated from the Dutch cruise ship, and the WHO said there is no sign of a wider outbreak yet, though more cases could emerge in coming weeks.
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