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Plane carrying virus-stricken cruise ship passengers lands in UK
Key takeaways
- A plane carrying repatriated British nationals landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday evening.
- The passengers flew into Manchester Airport on a charted flight from Tenerife, where the HV Hondius docked on Sunday morning, and will now be taken to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, Merseyside, to isolate for 72 hours.
- The risk to the general public remains very low, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
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Kathryn Armstrong Reuters. A plane carrying repatriated British nationals landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday evening. A plane carrying 20 Britons evacuated from a cruise ship hit by hantavirus has arrived in the UK.
The passengers flew into Manchester Airport on a charted flight from Tenerife, where the HV Hondius docked on Sunday morning, and will now be taken to Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, Merseyside, to isolate for 72 hours.
The risk to the general public remains very low, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
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