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Passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship to arrive in Perth tomorrow
Key takeaways
- The MV Hondius passengers bound for Australia landed in the Netherlands on Tuesday.
- Five Australians and one New Zealand citizen from the MV Hondius cruise ship are set to arrive in Perth on a repatriation aircraft tomorrow.
- They are all testing negative for hantavirus and are symptom-free, the federal health minister says.
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The MV Hondius passengers bound for Australia landed in the Netherlands on Tuesday. (Reuters: Piroschka van de Wouw)
Five Australians and one New Zealand citizen from the MV Hondius cruise ship are set to arrive in Perth on a repatriation aircraft tomorrow.
They are all testing negative for hantavirus and are symptom-free, the federal health minister says.
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