- Dozens of passengers disembarked a cruise ship on 24 April without contact tracing, nearly two weeks after the first death from a deadly hantavirus outbreak on board.
- Three passengers have died in total from the outbreak, with several others reported ill.
- The first victim was a Dutch man who died on 11 April, whose wife also disembarked and later died in South Africa.
- A passenger who disembarked in St Helena later tested positive for hantavirus in Switzerland, prompting contact tracing efforts by authorities in South Africa and Europe.
- The passengers who left the vessel represented at least 12 different nationalities, with the exact number of disembarking passengers varying between company and Dutch official reports.
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