Synopsis
Several European nations, including Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands, are dispatching planes to evacuate their citizens from a Spain-bound cruise ship experiencing a hantavirus outbreak. The EU is providing two additional planes for other European nationals, while the US and UK are arranging transport for non-EU citizens.
Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands have confirmed they will send planes to evacuate nationals from their respective countries aboard the Spain-bound cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, Spain‘s interior minister said in Madrid on Saturday.
The European Union is sending two further planes for the remaining European citizens, Fernando Grande-Marlaska added. The U.S. and UK have also confirmed planes and contingency plans were being arranged for non-EU citizens whose countries were unable to send air transport, he said.
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