Passengers start disembarking from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship in Spain’s Canary Islands | Latest News

TENERIFE, Canary Islands — Passengers started disembarking on Sunday from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship anchored off Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, hours after arriving there as evacuation plans got underway.

An Associated Press journalist at the scene saw people reaching land after leaving the ship. Nobody among the more than 140 people on the MV Hondius is showing symptoms of the virus, Spanish authorities, the World Health Organization and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said.

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