Spain's health minister says evacuation from hantavirus-hit ship to run into Monday afternoon
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The evacuation process of passengers from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak anchored near Tenerife is due to begin shortly and will take until Monday afternoon local time, Spain's health minister said on Sunday.
Spaniards will disembark first as planned followed by passengers from the Netherlands, whose plane will also transport passengers from Germany, Belgium, and Greece. After that, passengers from Turkey, France, Great Britain and the United States will be evacuated, the minister added, speaking to reporters at the port of Tenerife.
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