Article 75HBG Australians from hantavirus cruise ship to be assessed at Sydney’s new biocontainment facility

Australians from hantavirus cruise ship to be assessed at Sydney’s new biocontainment facility

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Nick Visser
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Four Australian citizens and one permanent resident from the MV Hondius to fly home via Perth on Tuesday

Some of the Australian travellers on board the MV Hondius, the ship at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak, will return to New South Wales this week and enter Australia's first purpose-built biocontainment facility.

The federal government is still finalising health measures and quarantine arrangements for the group of five people - four citizens and one permanent resident - about to disembark in the Canary Islands.

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