Overview
- The operation, set for Sunday in Tenerife, will keep the MV Hondius at anchor and move people by small boats into sealed buses that go straight to planes without entering the terminal.
- The World Health Organization says six cases are confirmed as the Andes strain with three deaths and it rates global risk as low while sending experts and thousands of test kits.
- Spanish health authorities have isolated two aircraft contacts of a deceased Dutch passenger, an asymptomatic woman in Barcelona and a woman in Alicante with mild respiratory symptoms who is awaiting PCR results.
- Multiple governments will repatriate nationals on dedicated flights and Spain will fly its 14 citizens to Madrid for monitored quarantine at Gómez Ulla with PCR on arrival and again on day seven.
- Investigators are probing a possible exposure site near Ushuaia as the Andes strain can spread person to person, which explains the sealed “bubble” transfers and the expectation that more cases could emerge during the incubation window.