Passenger on America-bound hantavirus evacuation flight tests positive for deadly disease

TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The passenger with mild symptoms will be taken to a second centre, the HHS said.On arrival at the facilities, each individual will undergo clinical assessment and receive care based on their condition, the department added.A total of 18 people will be on the American repatriation flight - the 17 Americans and one British national who is a US resident, Spain's Health Minister said.On Saturday, an official from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the federal Government had no plans to make the American evacuees quarantine upon arrival in Nebraska.We are not quarantining anybody,” a CDC official told reporters.The number of confirmed and probable cases of hantavirus onboard the MV Hondius cruise has now risen to nine.That number includes two people confirmed to have died from the virus, and one person who remains suspected to have died from the virus.On Sunday evening, a number of Britons who were also evacuated from the ship touched down in the UK.Twenty passengers landed in Britain and were taken to a managed setting for clinical assessment and testing at Arrowe Park hospital in Merseyside, where they will be placed into a 72-hour quarantine.Arrowe Park was used during the Covid pandemic, where Britons flying back from China were placed into quanratine upon their return from China.The Australian Government said this morning it would also repatriate its citizens from the Dutch-flagged vessel.We have agreed to repatriate a small number of Australians... and also one resident of another country to Australia for medical treatment, Environment Minister Murray Watt told ABC News.He did not give the nationality of the extra person.It also remains unclear whether any of the people being brought to Australia have fallen ill or were showing symptoms of the virus. More to follow... Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter