The national spokesperson for Immigration, Interior and Security of Vox, Samuel Vázquez, has compared this Wednesday the stopover in the Canary Islands of the cruise ship affected by hantavirus with the arrival of immigrants by sea. "As if people with a possible contagious disease were not arriving every day," he pointed out.
Spain has closed an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) so that the cruise ship 'MV Hondius', on which 149 people of 23 different nationalities travel --14 of them Spanish--, can make a stopover in the Canary archipelago.
Health authorities have detected six cases of hantavirus on board, of which two have been confirmed by laboratory tests. Three of those affected have died, one remains in critical condition in South Africa, and two other crew members require urgent medical attention. In addition, a person accompanying one of the deceased is in quarantine as a suspected case.
Vázquez has held the Government responsible for authorizing the cruise ship's stopover to "cover up the daily stabbings and rapes," which he attributes to immigrants. "Today we are talking about a ship in the Canary Islands with people with possible contagious diseases on board, as if boats like this don't arrive every day and without any control in Spain," he added in a message disseminated on his 'X' social media account.