All 22 Britons on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius were due to be airlifted today from the Canary Islands to quarantine in the UK.
They will be transferred to Arrowe Park Hospital on The Wirral, Merseyside, the centre used to isolate travellers returning from Wuhan in China at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The site became known as ‘Camp Corona’ in 2020 when Britons evacuated from China at the start of the coronavirus outbreak were held there in quarantine.
Janelle Holmes, chief executive of Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, said anybody who became unwell would be quickly transferred to
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