2 Indians on ship with hantavirus cases evacuated to Netherlands

Two Indian nationals aboard the cruise ship MV Honduis, hit by an outbreak of hantavirus, were evacuated to the Netherlands, the Indian Embassy in Spain said. Both crew members are healthy and asymptomatic and will be quarantined in the country, the Embassy added. The Director of ICMR's National Institute of Virology earlier said hantavirus poses no immediate threat to India.