Greek passenger of virus-stricken ship to be repatriated Sunday

The cruise vessel MV Hondius astatine the larboard of Granadilla de Abona aft being affected by a hantavirus outbreak, successful Tenerife, Spain, May 10, 2026. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

A Greek citizen, rider connected the cruise vessel MV Hondius where a deadly outbreak of Hantavirus has occurred, is expected successful Athens aboriginal Sunday.

The Greek citizen, who has not shown symptoms of the disease, will nevertheless beryllium quarantined for 45 days successful a specially prepared negative-pressure enclosure astatine Athens’ Attikon University Hospital, the Ministry of Health said successful a statement.

The ⁠World Health Organization has recommended a 42-day quarantine play stating MV Hondius passengers, whose evacuation started Sunday.

A Dutch craft will take the Greek passenger, alongside others, from Tenerife, successful Spain’s Canary Islands, to Eindhoven, successful the Netherlands. A special Hellenic Air Force formation will take him to the Elefsina aerial base, west of Athens, where helium will beryllium picked up by an ambulance.

A Rescue Service doc and a nurse, arsenic well arsenic the President of the Public Health Organization’s Scientific Council, will travel the antheral successful the formation from Eindhoven to Elefsina, the ministry said.

Medical experts hold that transmission of Hantavirus to humans is hard and rerquires prolonged vulnerability to infected rodents’ waste, saliva oregon blood.