Overview
- WHO said Tuesday it has identified seven linked patients from the MV Hondius, with two cases confirmed by lab tests.
- Cabo Verde denied the ship entry to Praia, local teams boarded to assess patients, and three symptomatic people are set to be evacuated there before the vessel departs with about 147 people still aboard.
- After those evacuations, officials are weighing a next stop in Spain’s Canary Islands or in the Netherlands, and Spain’s health ministry has not yet approved a Canaries docking.
- The outbreak has caused three deaths, including a Dutch couple and a German passenger, and a 69-year-old British passenger remains in critical care in Johannesburg.
- WHO says any person-to-person spread looks limited to very close contacts, and teams are sequencing the virus and tracing contacts as they investigate whether exposure occurred before embarkation or via a rodent on board.