Overview
- Spanish authorities and the WHO, which deployed Director-General Tedros to Tenerife on Saturday, will move passengers in small boats to a cordoned zone and only when repatriation flights are ready.
- The WHO reports six PCR-confirmed Andes virus cases out of eight suspected, including three deaths, and says no one on board is currently symptomatic as it maintains a low risk for the general public despite an incubation of up to six weeks.
- Multiple governments are sending aircraft for repatriation, with 17 Americans bound for quarantine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and some countries planning six-week home monitoring for those without symptoms.
- Spain’s health minister said luggage will not be unloaded and the deceased passenger’s body will remain on the ship, which will later sail to the Netherlands for disinfection as part of the containment protocol.
- Health services across four continents are tracing more than two dozen people who left the ship at St. Helena on April 24, and a KLM flight attendant linked to a brief exposure tested negative, easing concern about spread.