Senay Boztas

Yeah, good morning.

We haven't heard anything more other than that she seems to be taken into the Amsterdam UMC, which is a specialist medical hospital in Amsterdam.

So that's all we've heard so far.

The news just came out this morning that she's been taken to hospital.

Yeah, that's right.

So it looks like the Dutch woman of 69 who died of the Hantavirus left this ship, the cruise ship Hondius, at St Helena with 40 other people.

She then flew to Johannesburg on the 24th of April.

And then on the 26th, she tried to fly to Amsterdam on this KLM flight, it appears, and was too sick to fly.

And that was when she had contact with this stewardess.

So the question really is, how many people have these people come into contact with and why was it not reported for a whole week?

That's right.

When the World Health Organization came out with a press release earlier this week, they said that their first priority was to contact people who the Dutch woman, the 69 who died, was on a flight with on her way to Johannesburg.

But it's a very worrying signal if a stewardess has become sick.

We don't know, and that's the effort from the World Health Organisation is trying to trace these people, who they've been in contact with, where they are now.

And it's still very unclear how infectious this virus is.

It does seem to pass human-to-human transmission.

Some reports have said it's not as contagious as the coronavirus, but clearly it is contagious.

Sure, we have extremely good hospitals.

I don't think we have quite as many beds as Belgium.

Belgium seems to be the world leader in this.