“Today, the final contact of a person exposed to hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius completed their quarantine period, tested negative and returned home,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference.
“No further cases have been reported since May 25.
“We are therefore very pleased to say that WHO considers the outbreak of hantavirus over.”
The Dutch-flagged ship set off April 1 from Ushuaia, Argentina, taking in remote islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, including Tristan da Cunha, before heading north to Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, where remaining passengers were evacuated.
The polar exploration ship finally docked on May 18 in Rotterdam harbour in the Netherlands.
On May 30, the ship was cleared to put to sea again after cleaning and disinfection.
