{"id":948156,"date":"2026-05-09T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:08:17","slug":"germany-france-belgium-ireland-netherlands-to-send-planes-for-passengers-on-hantavirus-hit-cruise-ship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948156\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands to send planes for passengers on hantavirus-hit cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands have confirmed \u200cthey will send planes to evacuate \u200cnationals from their respective countries aboard the Spain-bound cruise \u200bship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, Spain&#8217;s interior minister said in Madrid on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The European Union is sending two further planes for \u200cthe remaining European \u2060citizens, Fernando Grande-Marlaska added. The U.S. and UK have also confirmed \u2060planes and contingency plans were being arranged for non-EU citizens whose countries were unable \u200bto send \u200bair transport, he \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Passengers will be allowed \u200cto take essential belongings with them but the remaining luggage, as well as the body of the deceased passenger onboard, will remain on the ship and be taken \u200cto the Netherlands where it \u200bwill be disinfected, Garcia \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spanish citizens \u200bwill disembark first, with the order \u200cof evacuation of the \u200bremaining groups \u200bof citizens to be determined by health authorities. Citizens will not be able to \u200bdisembark until \u200ctheir evacuation plane is ready to \u200bdepart, Grande-Marlaska added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, \u200bEditing by Aislinn Laing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands have confirmed \u200cthey will send planes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1789,2000,299,1699,121783,36,678,1477,2806],"class_list":{"0":"post-948156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-fernando-grande-marlaska","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-netherlands","16":"tag-planes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116544307582907726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}