The evacuation of the cruise ship with cases of hantavirus is underway, which was halted today and will resume tomorrow morning. A repatriation operation has already begun for the passengers, who will be placed in carantine.

The Greek passenger arrived on a Dutch aircraft at Eindhoven airport in the Netherlands and from there on a special air force flight will arrive at the military airport in Elefsina at around 4am. He has already boarded the aircraft for Greece. He is accompanied by a doctor, a rescuer from the EKAB and the chairman of the scientific council of the EODY. He will be transferred by ambulance to the hospital “Attikon”, in a negative pressure ward, in quarantine for 45 days.

“There is absolutely no fear of the virus spreading in Greece,” Health Minister, Adonis Georgiades said in a post on X, responding to the “toxic and poisonous” comments surrounding the repatriation of the Greek passenger.

“I am really saddened and saddened by the very many toxic, poisonous, abusive and sympathetic comments that I read left and right about our decision to repatriate our compatriot who is ill from the chantavirus. As if the Greek Ministry of Health could leave him alone in this adventure. I am ashamed of how our Society has reached this point of hatred between us,” Adonis Georgiades said.

What Spain’s Ministry of Health announced

In a statement, Spain’s Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla informed: “More than 90 people, passengers and crew members, will have been evacuated” from the Hondius by the end of today.”

It should be noted that evacuation operations on the cruise ship were suspended this evening and resume tomorrow, Monday afternoon. “There will be no passenger evacuation tomorrow morning due to the “refuelling” the ship needs to make for its journey to the Netherlands which will take days,” Granada port manager Pedro Suareth told local television.

Once the evacuation is complete, the cruise ship on which an outbreak of hantavirus was detected is scheduled to depart tomorrow, Monday, around 9 p.m. (GMT), according to Spanish authorities.

Repatriation for 22 Britons

Meanwhile, the plane carrying 22 Britons a from the cruise ship landed tonight at Manchester airport, according to images from British television network Sky News.

The flight had departed from Tenerife earlier and these Britons will now be taken to a hospital near Liverpool, where they will be examined and quarantined for up to 72 hours.