{"id":420537,"date":"2026-05-10T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420537\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:21:10","slug":"new-zealanders-on-cruise-with-hantavirus-outbreak-could-face-quarantine-on-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420537\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders on cruise with hantavirus outbreak could face quarantine on return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Jaine said repatriation plans would include a thorough health assessment. He said it\u2019s important to take all possible steps to manage any potential risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">He said depending on the risk, it is possible it may also include a period of quarantine for any exposed individual on their return to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Jaine said New Zealand\u2019s health services are well-placed to respond if there is a case of hantavirus in the country, but human-to-human transmission of hantavirus is rare and requires prolonged and direct exposure to a case. He said it isn\u2019t like the flu or Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The head of the WHO has travelled to Tenerife to reassure residents that there is a low risk of contracting the disease when the ship arrives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The WHO had assessed the global risk as low and said the risk for New Zealand specifically is low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\">RNZ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaine said repatriation plans would include a thorough health assessment. He said it\u2019s important to take all possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[124,2037,1872,167238,117,111,43,139,69,90,17976,127517,1527,102,24750],"class_list":["post-420537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-could","tag-cruise","tag-face","tag-hantavirus","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-outbreak","tag-quarantine","tag-return","tag-with","tag-zealanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}