Australia charters flight to bring nationals home from hantavirus-stricken luxury cruise
Four Australian citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius to fly home via Perth on Tuesday Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia will repatriate four citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius, the ship at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak , on a charter flight due to land in Perth on Tuesday. The ship, carrying 146 people, arrived at Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Isla
Four Australian citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius to fly to Western Australia on Monday
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Australian and New Zealand travellers caught up in the hantavirus outbreak will undergo three weeks’ quarantine north-east of Perth, part of compulsory orders to be issued by the federal government.
The health minister, Mark Butler, said four Australians citizens and one permanent resident would be taken from Perth to the Bullsbrook quarantine facility, next to the Pearce air force base. The group will be accompanied by one New Zealand citizen who will undergo quarantine in Australia.
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