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In Australia, we're lucky to have our govt managing this & the "quarantine period for repatriated passengers on a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak will be extended to 42 days total until June 23." www.straitstimes.com/asia/austral...

Australia's isolation plan 'one of the stronger responses' to ... - SBS World Australia's isolation plan 'one of the stronger responses' to hantavirus globally, Butler says Australians evacuated from the MV Hondius will quarantine for weeks in a pandemic-era facility outside Perth. The first passengers from the cruise ship began disembarking on Sunday morning, local time. Source: Getty / Chris McGrath In brief Passengers have started disembarking from a luxury cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak killed three people. A group of Australians will be among the last to leave, as they wait for a government-supported charter flight to arrive. Health Minister Mark Butler says Australia's plan to isolate passengers from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship in a containment facility outside Perth for three weeks is among the strictest global responses to the rare virus. Four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and a New Zealand national are expected to depart Tenerife in the Canary Islands on an Australian government-supported charter flight at around 3am Tuesday AEST. Medical personnel will be on board the WA-bound flight, which will land at an RAF base near Perth, and passengers will …

Breaking: Hantavirus cruise ship passengers have WA quarantine period extended Six people who were on a cruise ship that was hit by an outbreak of hantavirus have had their quarantine period in the outer Perth suburb of Bullsbrook extended until June 23.