Overview
- WHO confirmed six Andes hantavirus cases linked to the cruise with three deaths, while the operator says no one on board has symptoms.
- Spain will run a non-docking transfer on Sunday using small boats and sealed buses that take passengers straight to aircraft at Tenerife South.
- Repatriation will proceed by nationality with the UK, US, Germany, France, Greece, the Netherlands and others arranging flights, with EU aircraft on standby.
- Spanish passengers will quarantine at Madrid’s Gómez Ulla hospital in single rooms with PCR testing on arrival and again on day seven under a new protocol.
- Health officials isolated two women in Alicante and Barcelona who sat near the Dutch passenger who later died, and both are being tested under the same rules.