The evacuation of passengers from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak will be completed on Monday with flights from Australia and the Netherlands, Spain¡¯s health minister has said.
One flight from Australia will evacuate six passengers from the Spanish island of Tenerife and another from the Netherlands will take 18 ?passengers, with both flights also carrying passengers from other countries that did not send their own repatriation flights, officials ?have said.
Eight ?people no longer on the ship have fallen ill, according to a World Health Organization ?tally from Friday, of whom six are confirmed to have contracted the virus. Three have died ¡ª a Dutch couple and a German national.
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