Breaking: Hantavirus cruise passengers arrive in Australia

Six people who were on board a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have landed in Australia.

Breaking: Hantavirus cruise passengers arrive in Australia. Six people who were on board a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak have landed in Australia. The four Australian citizens, one permanent resident and one New Zealander arrived on a repatriation flight that had left the Netherlands late Thursday, where the passengers had been waiting after disembarking the MV Hondius. The plane landed at RAAF Base Pearce, about 40 kilometres north-east of Perth. Screening and quarantine The six passengers had tested negative for hantavirus before the flight, and were asymptomatic, but will undergo further health screening. The ABC understands the passengers will be tested and processed by the Australian Border Force, before being transferred to the Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience under police escort, where they will...