NHS<\/a> Trust and hospital is ‘operating as normal’ with no risk to patients, visitors or staff and ‘people should continue to come forward for care as usual’.<\/p>\nFollowing their isolation, public health specialists will assess whether passengers can isolate at home or at another suitable location based on their living arrangements. UK nationals will stay in self-isolation for 45 days and will not be allowed to take public transport to their homes.<\/p>\n
Some 30 crew members and a nurse from the Netherlands, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to Rotterdam in the Netherlands where it will undergo disinfection, the WHO said.<\/p>\n
The WHO said previously there had been six confirmed hantavirus cases linked to MV Hondius and four patients were currently in hospital. It added that a total of eight cases, including three deaths, had been reported \u2013 with one previous suspected case being reclassified after testing negative for hantavirus.<\/p>\n
The UKHSA said three British nationals are included in the eight cases \u2013 two involve confirmed hantavirus and another one is suspected. The two confirmed British cases are in hospital in South Africa and the Netherlands, while the third British national with a suspected case is being supported on the British overseas territory of Tristan da Cunha where they live.<\/p>\n
Six paratroopers, an RAF consultant and Army nurse from 16 Air Assault Brigade were parachuted onto the South Atlantic island, while oxygen supplies and medical aid was also dropped on Tristan da Cunha, which is normally only accessible by boat.<\/p>\n
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