{"id":47422,"date":"2026-05-10T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47422"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:41:54","slug":"who-head-seeks-to-reassure-residents-of-spanish-island-where-hantavirus-stricken-ship-is-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/who-head-seeks-to-reassure-residents-of-spanish-island-where-hantavirus-stricken-ship-is-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The head of the World Health Organization sought Saturday to reassure residents of the Spanish island where passengers of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are expected to be evacuated, issuing them a direct message that the virus was \u201cnot another COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, with more than 140 passengers and crew on board, is headed to Spain\u2019s Canary Islands, off the coast of West Africa, and is expected to arrive at the island of Tenerife early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain\u2019s Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, were due on the island Saturday to coordinate the disembarkation of passengers and some crew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word \u2018outbreak\u2019 and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment,\u201d Tedros said in a message to the people of Tenerife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the World Health Organization sought Saturday to reassure residents of the Spanish island where passengers of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship are expected to be evacuated, issuing them a direct message that the virus was \u201cnot another COVID.\u201d The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, with more than 140 passengers and crew on board, is headed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47424,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422\/revisions\/47424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}