Tenerife medics poised for arrival of virus-hit cruise ship
Key takeaways
- Intensive preparations have been under way to receive the ship in the port of Granadilla and help more than 100 people onto shore to be repatriated.
- The Hondius is expected to arrive in the area before dawn but even now it won't be permitted to reach shore: a security perimeter of one nautical mile will be enforced around the ship as it approaches the island.
- Once in the port, it will drop anchor at sea to ensure its continuing isolation.
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Sarah Rainsford,Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent, Granadilla, Tenerife BBCA cargo ship sits in the industrial port of Granadilla, Tenerife Almost a month after the first passenger died of the hantavirus on board the MV Hondius cruise ship, it is finally approaching Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
Intensive preparations have been under way to receive the ship in the port of Granadilla and help more than 100 people onto shore to be repatriated.
The Hondius is expected to arrive in the area before dawn but even now it won't be permitted to reach shore: a security perimeter of one nautical mile will be enforced around the ship as it approaches the island.