A passenger waves to the Guardia Civil officers as they are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday. (The Associated Press)
Canada sent a flight to Tenerife, Spain to pick up four Canadian passengers who were on the MV Hondius, the site of a hantavirus outbreak.Spanish and French passengers have already left the ship and boarded planes chartered from Spain and France.Spanish authorities say everyone still on board the ship remains asymptomatic for hantavirus.Passengers are being ferried to shore in small boats and taken directly to the airport on sealed buses.The World Health Organization (WHO) says the public health risk remains low, stressing the hantavirus outbreak is not comparable to COVID-19.