British passengers evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have been quarantined at an isolation facility after their repatriation flight landed in the UK.
Health officials have also begun contact tracing for those in touch with the individuals evacuated from hantavirus-striken MV Hondius, announced Robin May, chief scientific officer at the UK Health Security Agency.
Earlier, a chartered Titan Airways flight carrying them departed from Tenerife’s south airport on Sunday evening after MV Hondius reached there.
The 20 British passengers, who were tested for hantavirus before getting on the flight, have now been taken to isolate at Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside upon their arrival at Manchester Airport.
A French national aboard the cruise ship started developing symptoms of the disease as he was being repatriated to France on a chartered flight from Tenerife to Paris, said the country’s prime minister, Sebastiane Lecornu.
Out of 17 Americans being repatriated from cruise ship, one has mild symptoms and another has tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes strain of the virus, said country’s Department of Health and Human Services.
