A plane carrying 20 U.K. citizens who were passengers on a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak landed in Manchester, northwest England, on Sunday (May 10, 2026), television pictures showed.
The flight arrived at the city’s airport from Tenerife, where the MV Hondius is moored. The British nationals will be taken to a hospital near Liverpool, also in northwest England, for tests and will stay in quarantine for up to 72 hours.
Passengers start disembarking from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship in Spain's Canary Islands
According to information from the Spanish Government, 22 British nationals were evacuated from the MV Hondius earlier.
A British official said 20 of them had flown in on the special flight to Manchester. The other two did not live in Britain and would be travelling to their countries of residence.
