The cruise ship with the hantavirus outbreak will not dock in Tenerife; passengers will be transferred by launch for immediate repatriation or quarantine.
The vessel is scheduled to reach Granadilla de Abona on Sunday. Local authorities have decided against docking; instead, passengers will disembark via tender boats and be flown out or taken to designated facilities. Spain’s 14 nationals will be transported directly to Madrid’s Gómez Ulla military hospital for mandatory quarantine. The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Canada are assisting with the repatriation of their citizens. Health officials continue to trace the source to an earlier ornithological excursion taken by the first Dutch patients.
