00:00For his part, Deluxe Show Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus briefed the media on Thursday in Geneva regarding the Hantavirus outbreak
00:07where he stressed the importance of international health security organization since two of the countries affected Argentina and the United
00:14States left the Deluxe Show earlier this year.
00:17Health security needs inversality. And any vacuum, any space which is not covered actually gives advantage to the virus. And
00:31the best immunity we have is solidarity.
00:35So because of the event that's happening now and, you know, both Argentina and the U.S. are affected, I
00:45think they will reconsider their decisions because they can see how important inversality is for health security.
00:57Because viruses don't care about our politics and they don't care about our borders.
01:09And in Spain, the Ministry of Health confirmed that the Dutch flag cruise ship MV Hantius, affected by an outbreak
01:15of Hantavirus, will dock in the Canary Islands within three to four days, given the situation which now includes eight
01:22infected and three deaths.
01:23Minister Monica Garcia announced the activation of the European Union's civil protection mechanism to coordinate an international response.
01:31The operation will prioritize the immediate repatriation of all passengers to their countries of origin, while the 14 Spanish citizens
01:38on board will be transferred under strict biosafety measures to Madrid, where they will quarantine at the Gómez Ulla Military
01:45Hospital.
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