A flight repatriating British passengers evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak has taken off from Tenerife and is on route to Manchester Airport.
The chartered Titan Airways flight departed from the Canary Island’s south airport on Sunday evening, with passengers of other nationalities due to be flown home on separate flights.
British passengers of the Airbus A320’s will be taken from Manchester Airport to isolate at the UK’s initial Covid quarantine site.
The MV Hondius arrived in Tenerife on Sunday morning, with Spanish authorities beginning evacuations of the ship by nationality and ferrying passengers to a port by small boat.
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