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Breaking: Hantavirus cruise passengers arrive in Australia
Key takeaways
- The repatriation plane flying through a rain band prior to touching down in Perth.
- Australian officials wave to passengers on the repatriation flight.
- The plane landed at RAAF Base Pearce, about 40 kilometres north-east of Perth.
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The repatriation plane flying through a rain band prior to touching down in Perth. (ABC News)
Link copied Share Share article Six people who were on board a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have landed in Australia.
The four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and one New Zealander arrived on a repatriation flight that had left the Netherlands late Thursday, where the passengers had been waiting after disembarking the MV Hondius.
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