00:01The World Health Organization, WHO, will begin a large-scale, coordinated and tightly controlled
00:08operation to repatriate passengers aboard the Hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondias
00:14when it docks in Tenerife on Sunday morning.
00:16In an update on the outbreak, WHO Acting Director of the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic
00:22Threat Management, Dr. Maria van Kerkhove, said no one currently on board is showing
00:27symptoms of the illness.
00:29Right now, we, as WHO, we classify everybody on board as what we call a high-risk contact.
00:35That might sound scary, but it's really what, it's how we will operationalize the movement
00:41of the passengers and the crew safely home.
00:43We're talking about their risk.
00:44We're talking about their risk, yes.
00:45So the risk to the general public is low.
00:48The risk to the people in the Canary Islands is low, so we do need to continue to contextualize
00:52this because of all the attention right now, people may think that the risk is growing.
00:57It's not.
00:57Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands are sending aircraft to evacuate
01:02their citizens from the Tenerife-bound cruise ship, which was hit by a deadly Hantavirus
01:07outbreak, Spain's Interior Minister said in Madrid on Saturday.
01:11Medical evacuation planes had already arrived in Tenerife ahead of Sunday's large-scale
01:16repatriation operation.
01:18The European Union is also deploying two additional aircraft to evacuate remaining European citizens,
01:24Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska added.
01:28The United States and the United Kingdom have confirmed that aircraft and contingency
01:33plans are being arranged for non-EU passengers whose home countries are unable to provide air
01:39transport.
01:40The luxury cruise ship MV Hondias departed from the coast of Cape Verde on Wednesday
01:45on route to Spain after the WHO and the European Union requested Cape Verde's assistance in managing
01:53the evacuation following the detection of the outbreak on board.
01:56The World Health Organization said on Friday that eight people had fallen ill, including three
02:03who died—a Dutch couple and a German national.
02:09The World Health Organization said on Friday that seven people had been flying to Arnav.
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