The Government of Australia has said that it will place six people from a cruise ship struck with the rat-borne hantavirus in a purpose-built quarantine facility north of Perth for at least three weeks.
They made this announcement this Monday, saying the passengers, comprising four Australian citizens, one permanent resident in Australia and a New Zealand era, are to be kept at Western Australia’s 500-bed Bullsbrook centre, originally built for the Covid-19 pandemic.
Health Minister, Mark Butler, also said repatriation flights from Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands are still being finalised in a “complex” operation.
None of the six passengers have shown symptoms of hantavirus, but Australia is implementing a stronger response because the long flight from Tenerife in a relatively small plane posed a greater risk of transmission.
