Evacuation of three people from ship in Cape Verdes ‘ongoing’, says WHO officialpublished at 10:01 BST<\/p>\n
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The evacuation of two sick crew members and one other person from the Hondius in Cape Verde is “ongoing”, the World Health Organization says.<\/p>\n
“The three of them are stable, and one of the three is asymptomatic,” WHO Cape Verde representative Ann Lindstrand tells AFP. <\/p>\n
The cruise ship is expected to depart Cape Verde following the evacuation.<\/p>\n
The ship’s Dutch operator Oceanwide Expeditions said on Tuesday that two seriously ill crew members – one British, one Dutch – and a passenger would be taken off the ship and flown to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
After the evacuation, “our plan is to proceed to the Canary Islands, either Gran Canaria or Tenerife, which will take three days of sailing,” the operator said yesterday. <\/p>\n
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