The leader of Spain‘s Canary Islands has expressed his opposition to allowing a luxury cruise ship stricken by a deadly hantavirus outbreak to dock on the archipelago.
The outbreak of the rare, rat-borne illness that has a 40 per cent mortality rate has left three people dead and several others seriously ill.
Meanwhile, the company that operates the vessel, which is currently anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde, says it plans to move to the Spanish islands.
But on Wednesday, the president of the Canaries, Fernando Clavijo, told COPE radio station that he had requested an ‘urgent meeting’ with the Prime Minister of
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