Overview
- Evacuations at Tenerife moved 94 people on Sunday on eight dedicated flights, with more departures scheduled the next day, after shipboard screening found no symptoms.
- WHO reports at least six confirmed infections and three deaths in the cluster and, with the ECDC, classifies all passengers as high‑risk contacts who require 42 days of follow‑up.
- New infections appeared after repatriation, including a French evacuee who fell ill en route to Paris and two Americans now isolated after testing positive or developing symptoms.
- Authorities are using non‑commercial flights and isolating cases, prioritizing anyone with symptoms for testing on arrival, while a reduced crew sails the vessel to the Netherlands for decontamination.
- The response now reaches remote locations, with a British military airdrop to Tristan da Cunha for a suspected case, as investigators track exposures to the rodent‑borne Andes strain that can rarely spread between people.