Overview
- MV Hondius docked Monday in Rotterdam, where 25 crew and two medics began disembarking for quarantine as the Dutch‑flagged vessel readies for cleaning and disinfection.
- Canada’s public health agency confirmed Sunday that a Yukon passenger from the cruise tested positive for the Andes strain, and high‑risk contacts are isolating under local monitoring.
- Health authorities report 11 cases linked to the voyage, including three deaths, and the WHO maintains a low overall risk as incubation can extend up to six weeks.
- France’s Pasteur Institute sequenced the virus from a passenger and found it matches known South American Andes lineages with no evidence of new, more transmissible traits.
- Governments continue sealed transfers and quarantine support, with a UK medic assessed at a specialist London unit and repatriated Britons and Americans completing monitored isolation.