The Spanish passenger on the MV Hondius who tested positive for hantavirus remains stable and the other 13 isolated at the Gómez Ulla Central Defense Hospital remain asymptomatic, according to the latest hour of surveillance to which they have been subjected since their admission last Sunday.
Health sources have reported the clinical situation of the Spaniards – among whom there is a man from Burgos – who were traveling on the MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak. In principle, the next update will be made public within 24 hours.
The infected patient began on Monday night, after being admitted to the Gómez Ulla to undergo quarantine, with low-grade fever and some respiratory difficulty, which was treated with oxygen therapy, which has allowed him to begin to improve and this past Wednesday he was already stabilized.
He remains in the High Level Isolation and Treatment Unit (Uatan) of Gómez Ulla, and PCR tests will be carried out until he recovers, according to the health authorities, who follow surveillance very closely because the hantavirus infection can occur very quickly, as has happened with the French patient.
The rest of the isolated Spaniards follow a very strict quarantine, although next Sunday, one week after admission, they will undergo two PCR tests, which if the negative result is confirmed, will allow flexibility, with visits and departures from the room, always with protection and security measures, as established by the protocol updated this past Tuesday.
However, the Minister of Health, Mónica García, warned this past Wednesday that more positives may emerge given the long incubation period of the hantavirus.
The minister met this past afternoon with her counterparts from France, Slovenia, Malta, Bulgaria, Finland, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Portugal, Croatia, Denmark and Austria, all of them involved in the crisis caused by the outbreak on the ship MV Hondius, which arrives on Sunday at the port of Rotterdam with around twenty crew members, plus two specialists from the Health Organization (WHO).
This is a meeting to monitor the situation and a sharing after the evacuation operation in the Canary Islands last Monday, and the subsequent quarantines. (EFE)