{"id":7098,"date":"2026-05-23T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2026-05-23T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:16:00","slug":"chantaios-the-captain-is-free-to-leave-the-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"Chantaios: the captain is free to leave the cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The captain of the cruise ship &#8220;MV Hondius&#8221; was allowed to leave the ship after disembarking in <b>Tenerife<\/b> and checking in all passengers as <b>ghanias<\/b> had broken out. <\/p>\n<p>The captain of the cruise ship MV Hondius, on which an outbreak of hantavirus was detected, can finally leave the ship today, announced T<b>Andanom Guebreyes<\/b>, the director general of the <b>World Health Organization<\/b> (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>The cruise ship, which had departed on April 1 from Ushuaia, Argentina, ended its voyage on May 18 in the Dutch port of <b>Rotterdam<\/b> after passing through the Spanish<b> archipelago of <b>Canary<\/b> where more than <b>120 people<\/b> disembarked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I received the last message from Captain Jan Dobrogowski, who is finally leaving the cruise ship MV Hondius today (Saturday). He still shows no symptoms of hantavirus,&#8221; the WHO chief said via X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply grateful to Jan for his cooperation and leadership as he commanded the ship through an extraordinary and frightening voyage. Thank you, dear Jan, for leading your passengers to safety,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Since May 2, the date when the outbreak was first flagged, the WHO has reported a total of 12 suspected and confirmed cases of hantavirus, three of which have ended.<\/p>\n<p>One crew member, who had disembarked in Tenerife and was repatriated to <b>The Netherlands<\/b>, was confirmed yesterday, Friday, as a new case of Hantavirus and is being treated as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference yesterday, Tedros Adanom Gebrejesus said that more than 600 contacts in 30 countries were still being monitored, with a &#8220;small number of high-risk contacts&#8221; remaining to be identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain of the cruise ship &#8220;MV Hondius&#8221; was free to leave the ship after disembarking in Tenerife and checking all passengers, as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}