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Get you up to speed: Spanish authorities evacuate British passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship
Hundreds of health personnel equipped in personal protective gear were deployed to the MV Hondius cruise ship in Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, due to a hantavirus outbreak. The Spanish Civil Guard stated that the operation involved more than 300 personnel, including NRBQ specialists and GRS units, to facilitate the transfer of occupants to Tenerife South Airport.
The Spanish Civil Guard led an operation involving over 300 personnel for the evacuation of the MV Hondius passengers following a hantavirus outbreak, as stated in their announcement. Janelle Holmes, CEO of Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust, noted that those evacuated will undergo a 72-hour assessment to determine if they can proceed to a mandatory 45-day home isolation.
The 22 British passengers from the MV Hondius will isolate for 72 hours in a dedicated accommodation block to determine if they can complete a mandatory 45-day isolation at home. Janelle Holmes, CEO of Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust, stated that the passengers will be able to phone their friends and family during this time.
Inside major evacuation which rescued passengers of hantavirus ship | News World
This is the moment hundreds of health personnel kitted out in personal protective gear descended upon the hantavirus-riddled MV Hondius cruise ship.
The footage was obtained from the Spanish Civil Guard on May 10, filmed in the town of Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife.
Police vehicles, helicopters and maritime units also took part in the operation around the harbour.
The Spanish Civil Guard said in a statement: ‘The Civil Guard has participated in the transfer of the occupants of the MV Hondius from the port of Granadilla de Abona to Tenerife South Airport.
‘The operation has involved more than 300 personnel, including air resources, several vessels from the maritime service, NRBQ [Nuclear, Radiological, Biological and Chemical] specialists, GRS [Civil Guard Reserve and Security Group], and citizen security units.’
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The cruise ship MV Hondius has made headlines in recent weeks following an outbreak of hantavirus, killing three.
Health officials came onto the boat in Tenerife (Picture: Reuters)
One passenger gives a thumbs up while wearing a face covering (Picture: Getty)
British passengers on the ship were flown into Manchester Airport on a chartered flight from Tenerife after the HV Hondius docked there on Sunday morning.
Some 22 UK residents were among those evacuated from the vessel. They have since been taken to Arrowe Park Hospital.
They were photographed arriving by coach at the medical facility in Wirral, with the driver seen wearing a face mask and a clear face shield. All of them have tested negative for hantavirus.
The British passengers will quarantine for 45 days (Picture: Getty)
Passengers were seen looking out on the horizon before disembarking (Picture: AP)
They will now isolate for 72 hours in a dedicated accommodation block to determine if they can complete a 45-day isolation at home.
Janelle Holmes, CEO of Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust, said the passengers will be able to phone their friends and family.
She told the BBC: ‘What we’ve learnt from past experience is they’re going to be absolutely shattered.
‘They’ve probably felt quite traumatised by the whole experience, so the thing for us to do is to make sure that they’re here, they’re safe, they’re welcome.’
Hantaviruses are potentially fatal diseases carried by rodents. Humans can contract the disease through contact with infected animals or their droppings, according to health authorities.
The Ministry of Defence says that the risk to the public remains very low.
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October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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