00:00According to the World Health Organization, more cases of Hantavirus could emerge after three people died from the infection aboard
00:06a cruise ship as several passengers disembarked before the outbreak was confirmed.
00:11Health authorities affirm that more cases could be reported, but the outbreak is expected to remain limited if the necessary
00:18precautions are taken.
00:20This comes as around 40 people from 12 different countries left the cruise ship in the British island of St.
00:25Helene before the outbreak was confirmed.
00:28In this context, the WHO is coordinating closely with multiple countries under the international health regulations but assesses the public
00:36health risk as well.
00:38For her part, WHO Acting Director for the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, Maria van Kerkhoff, stressed
00:48that health authorities seek to ease fears of a wider global outbreak of the rotten-borne virus, noting that it
00:55is less contagious than COVID-19.
01:02We know this virus, Hantavirus, have been around for quite a while.
01:06There's a lot of detail that we know.
01:07I'm going to ask Anais to come in and say this, but I want to be unequivocal here.
01:10This is not SARS-CoV-2.
01:12This is not the start of a COVID pandemic.
01:14This is an outbreak that we see on a ship.
01:17There's a confined area.
01:18We have five confirmed cases so far.
01:21We completely understand why these questions are coming, and we are trying to provide all of the information that we
01:27can provide.
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