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Captain of virus-hit ship praises all aboard as Australians set to return home
The MV Hondius has left Tenerife on its voyage to Rotterdam. (Reuters: Hannah McKay)
The captain of the MV Hondius praised the crew and guests aboard the hantavirus-hit ship for their kindness and patience during the outbreak at sea.
Captain Jan Dobrogowkshi says he was touched by the "caring" and "quiet strength" he witnessed.
A chartered flight will take four Australian passengers to the Netherlands for medical assessment, before they travel to Perth for quarantine.
The captain of the MV Hondius has praised the patience and kindness of his crew and the guests aboard the hantavirus-hit ship as they disembark and prepare to head to their respective home countries.
COVID quarantine facility finally being used for disease control
The Bullsbrook quarantine facility is one of three Centres for National Resilience built during COVID. (ABC News: Mitch Edgar)
Six passengers from a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak are being transported to the 500-bed Centre for National Resilience in Bullsbrook, approximately 40 kilometres north-east of Perth.
The purpose-built quarantine facility, largely dormant since its completion in 2022 and routinely referred to as a white elephant, will now finally be used for the purpose for which it was intended.
In scenes eerily reminiscent of the early days of the COVID pandemic, the MV Hondius cruise ship last month became the site of an outbreak of the potentially fatal rodent-borne illness.
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Evacuated US and French MV Hondius passengers test positive for hantavirus
French woman taken to Paris in serious condition while American flown to Nebraska is asymptomatic, say officials
A French woman and an American national evacuated from the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive for the virus, as the complex operation to repatriate those onboard continued on Monday.
The French woman was one of five French passengers who disembarked from the ship in Tenerife on Sunday before being flown to a hospital in Paris.
The French health minister, Stéphanie Rist, said the woman was in a serious condition on Monday. Rist said the woman had started to feel very unwell on Sunday night and “tests came back positive”. Rist told France Inter radio: “Unfortunately, her symptoms worsened overnight.” She is being treated in a specialised infectious diseases unit of a hospital in Paris.
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