The Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla, has censured the decision of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, to prevent the anchoring in Tenerife of the cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak. Padilla has accused him of "doing politics to boycott...
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held a meeting this Saturday at the Moncloa Palace with the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to address the arrival at the port of Granadilla, in the south of Tenerife, of the cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by...
At a time when tourism is trying to resist the war in Iran without too many affections, the declaration of a hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius (which will dock in the Canary Islands in the coming days) could be another obstacle for the industry as the summer...
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has communicated that three passengers suspected of hantavirus have already been evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius and are en route to the Netherlands, where they are expected to receive the necessary healthcare.Just as Tedros explained on the...
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...
Spanish citizens traveling on the luxury cruise ship "MV Hondius", where a hantavirus outbreak has been detected, belong to six autonomous communities. Specifically, there are five people from Catalonia, three from Madrid, three from Asturias, and one from Castilla y León, another from Galicia, and another from the Valencian Community,...
The cruise ship company 'MV Hondius', Oceanwide Expeditions, announced this Wednesday that two doctors specialized in infectious diseases, from the Netherlands, are traveling to the ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak to provide assistance to passengers.According to the company, the intention is for these two specialists to remain on board...
The Swiss health authorities have communicated this Wednesday to the World Health Organization (WHO) the detection of a new case of hantavirus in a traveler who was on board the cruise ship "MV Hondius" and who is currently receiving medical attention in a hospital in Zurich. With this positive case,...
The deputy secretary of Health and Social Policy of the People's Party (PP), Carmen Fúnez, has criticized that the "confusion" generated around the management of the cruise ship with hantavirus by the Government is "unacceptable," and has called for "constant" information to be offered to citizens."The confusion about hantavirus is...
The president of the Catalan Generalitat, Salvador Illa, reiterated this Wednesday his support for the Government's actions in public health matters in the face of the docking in the Canary Islands of the cruise ship carrying people infected with hantavirus. "We must not be afraid, we must always act hand...
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has rejected that the cruise ship with hantavirus docks in the archipelago and has requested an "urgent meeting" with the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez. He considers that the decision, adopted by the central government, does not respond to "any technical...
The Ministry of Health has reported that the medicalized aircraft tasked with transferring the doctor with hantavirus, a member of the crew of the cruise ship "MV Hondius", to the Canary Islands, continues without taking off from Cape Verde, despite the evacuation being scheduled for the early hours of this...
The situation of the cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, continues to generate international concern, while the World Health Organization (WHO) and Spanish health authorities coordinate the disembarkation of passengers and crew in the Canary Islands. The Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has asked that passengers...
Spain has finally given the green light, at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union, for the cruise ship MV Hondius, where a hantavirus outbreak has been detected, to make a stopover in Canary Islands in order to organize healthcare assistance for passengers and crew...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has indicated that the threat to Europe from the hantavirus outbreak detected on the cruise ship 'MV Hondius', currently anchored off the coast of Cape Verde, "is very low, given that adequate infection prevention and control measures are being implemented on...
Oceanwide Expeditions, the company responsible for the cruise ship 'MV Hondius', has communicated that, "for the moment", no more symptomatic people with hantavirus have been detected on board. At the same time, it has pointed out that preparations are being finalized for the medical evacuation of those requiring urgent healthcare.The...