From Global News.

A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned since Sunday off the coast of Cape Verde was set to leave for Spain on Wednesday after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated.

The MV Hondius, with nearly 150 people on board, is expected to dock in Spain’s Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, within three days, Spain’s Health Minister Monica Garcia said, adding that those still on board were not presenting any symptoms of the disease.

Once in Tenerife, if they are still healthy, all non-Spanish citizens will be repatriated to their countries, Garcia announced at a press conference in Madrid. The 14 Spanish passengers will be quarantined in a military hospital in Madrid and the duration of the quarantine will be "as long as required by clinical protocols," she said.

Three people – a Dutch couple and a German national – have so far died in the outbreak. A total of eight people – including a Swiss citizen who has returned home and is being treated in Zurich – are suspected to have contracted the virus, with three of them confirmed by laboratory testing, the World Health Organisation said.

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