EU working ‘around the clock’ to prepare for hantavirus ship passengers – POLITICO

The EU is working day and night with experts to define clear quarantine guidance for countries ahead of passengers disembarking from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak in Spain this weekend.

The MV Hondius is off the coast of Morocco, traveling north in the Atlantic Ocean, and is due to arrive in Tenerife in the early hours of Sunday morning. From there, it will anchor in the port of Granadilla, where passengers whose countries have arranged flights home for them will be taken directly to their planes.

"The Commission is working around the clock with all relevant partners," including national authorities, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the World Health Organization and the G7, a spokesperson told POLITICO in an email.