The person identified in Catalonia as a contact of the Dutch citizen who died from hantavirus after traveling on the cruise ship MV Hondius He will be quarantined at the Hospital Clínic from this Saturday morning, when he will arrive at the facilities. The care director of the Hospital Clínic, Dr. Toni Castells, has explained to the media that the incubation period of the virus is three to six weeks, and that the quarantine will have a maximum duration of this. This person is not considered a patient, but rather an asymptomatic contact, and therefore their contacts will only be traced in the event that they test positive for hantavirus. In Spain, it has also been found that they traveled on the same flight: a woman in Alicante and another who spent a week in Barcelona and returned to her country of origin, South Africa. Meanwhile, Tenerife, scheduled for early Sunday morning. The Minister of Health, Mónica García; the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska; and the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, will travel to the island this afternoon to coordinate the arrival of the cruise ship.
