Cape Verde prepares to help virus-hit cruise ship, Canary Islands oppose docking

Cape Verde has set up an isolation area and a multidisciplinary team in case passengers or crew of the Hondius cruise ship need assistance, following three deaths on board associated with acute respiratory syndrome, the government announced.

On Ascension Island, a passenger was removed from the boat and transported to intensive care where he remains in South Africa with the only confirmed case of hantavirus.

“The hospital has already…