Overview
- The UK Health Security Agency said it accepted a shipment of favipiravir from Japan to boost clinical stocks, with no details disclosed on dose numbers.
- Favipiravir is not licensed in Britain and is approved in Japan for influenza under the brand Avigan.
- Scientists say using favipiravir for hantavirus is an experimental step that lacks strong human trial evidence.
- The cluster involves the Andes virus, which can spread between people after close, prolonged contact, with eight confirmed cases, two probable cases, and three deaths linked to the Hondius.
- Dutch authorities disembarked crew and medical staff after the ship reached Rotterdam, and the World Health Organization says there is no sign of greater transmissibility or a pandemic threat.