French national shows symptoms on return from hantavirus-hit ship
Key takeaways
- Aleks Phillipsand Sarah Rainsford,Southern & Eastern Europe correspondent, Granadilla, Tenerife Getty Images Ambulances took the five French passengers to a hospital in Paris.
- The French citizens are among more than 90 tourists to be ferried home from the Dutch vessel on Sunday, which anchored off the Canary Islands before dawn.
- Three passengers have died after travelling on the ship, two of whom were confirmed to have had the virus.
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Aleks Phillipsand Sarah Rainsford,Southern & Eastern Europe correspondent, Granadilla, Tenerife Getty Images Ambulances took the five French passengers to a hospital in Paris. A passenger of a cruise ship that was struck by an outbreak of hantavirus has shown symptoms of the disease while being repatriated to France, the country's prime minister has said.
Sebastian Lecornu said the French national developed symptoms while on a chartered flight from Tenerife to Paris, and so all five evacuated from the MV Hondius had been "immediately placed in strict isolation until further notice".
The French citizens are among more than 90 tourists to be ferried home from the Dutch vessel on Sunday, which anchored off the Canary Islands before dawn.