Overview
- MV Hondius, which anchored off Tenerife on Sunday, began phased disembarkation by small boats under Spanish and WHO oversight.
- The first repatriation flights moved 14 Spanish passengers to a military hospital in Madrid for quarantine and carried a French group to Paris.
- The U.S. government is dispatching a dedicated aircraft to evacuate 17 citizens for care and monitoring at the University of Nebraska’s biocontainment unit.
- A Spanish court approved a compulsory 7‑day quarantine for Spanish returnees, while WHO recommends a 42‑day monitoring period for all evacuees.
- Authorities have tied three deaths to the cluster and logged multiple confirmed and probable cases, including two in Dutch evacuees and one in a Swiss returnee, as WHO probes possible person‑to‑person spread and says the public risk remains low.