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Good morning, Clare, to your new listeners.
That's right.
Yes.
Overnight, we understand that a French lady has tested positive and also an American passenger on board the cruise ship who's returned to the United States is showing, quotes, mild symptoms of the Hantavirus, which is quite worrying, basically, because the World Health Organization were very keen to say that the best thing to do, the best way to move forward from this crisis was to take the passengers off board, take the passengers off the
and repatriate them to their own countries.
And now we have two cases in countries that have received those passengers.
And the World Health Organization is very keen to stress that, look, this isn't another COVID.
But people will be questioning whether this was the right thing to do to allow the passengers off and let them go back to their own country.
Well, they are supposed to be, well, for example, the British ones, and I'm sure the same case, the same as with the Irish ones, they were tested in Tenerife before they were allowed to leave.
And if they weren't showing any symptoms, they were then put on board a plane and taken back to their relevant countries.
So just to refer back to your first question, this is quite interesting because those, the French lady who was let off the ship and the American were both displaying no symptoms.
And yet overnight, they have now developed the hunter virus vaccine.
and they are now quarantining back in their relevant countries.
But yes, those that were allowed out have now flown home.
They will be tested for the next three days in the UK.
They're going to be tested at a specialist hospital on Merseyside.
If they don't show any symptoms, they're going to be allowed home and they're going to be told to self-isolate.
The onus is going to be on themselves to lock themselves away.
But the thing is, Claire, it's a six-week, possibly up to eight-week incubation period.
I mean,