'Work not over,' says WHO after hantavirus evacuation
Key takeaways
- Extensive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine procedures are still needed to contain the outbreak, WHO says.
- https://p.dw.com/p/5Dd Bq Dutch evacuees from the Hondius cruise ship are received in Eindhoven Image: Rob Engelaar/ANP/picture alliance Advertisement.
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Extensive testing, contact tracing, and quarantine procedures are still needed to contain the outbreak, WHO says. However, it has stressed that the current outbreak is vastly different to the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Dd Bq Dutch evacuees from the Hondius cruise ship are received in Eindhoven Image: Rob Engelaar/ANP/picture alliance Advertisement. The push to contain the recent hantavirus outbreak "is not over" yet, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.
Tedros' comments came soon after it was announced that everyone aboard the virus-struck cruise ship MV Hondius had been evacuated from Spain's Canary Islands.