Tseng declined to provide details about the person\u2019s age, gender or exact location in Taiwan.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt present, we believe their probability of developing the disease is relatively low,\u201d Tseng said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir last exposure with the other passengers was on the 25th of April, which is about 20 days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
The virus has a potential incubation period of 42 days.<\/p>\n
CDC director-general Lo Yi-chun told reporters that the person did not return to New Zealand after leaving the cruise ship, but would not provide information on the route they took to Taiwan.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for New Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) said it was \u201cproviding consular assistance to a dual national\u201d in Taiwan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe person resides outside New Zealand and sought help from MFAT on Wednesday 13 May,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n
The ship set sail from Argentina on April 1, charting a course across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
Health authorities have repeatedly emphasised that the broader risk to public health from the outbreak of the Andes strain of hantavirus – the only one known to spread between people – is low.<\/p>\n
Globally, the death toll remains at three.<\/p>\n
No vaccines or specific treatments exist, but health officials have said the risk is low and have dismissed comparisons to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Yesterday six people, including a Kiwi, arrived in Perth and were taken under police escort to the Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience to spend the next three weeks in quarantine, the ABC reported.<\/p>\n
The group, all passengers on board the MV Honius, had left the Netherlands on Thursday.<\/p>\n
– AFP, additional reporting NZ Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tseng declined to provide details about the person\u2019s age, gender or exact location in Taiwan. \u201cAt present, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3225,29893,2037,71,167238,220136,134,213202,2241,78,187231,117,111,43,139,69,14734,127517,220135,17093,6064,140062,80],"class_list":["post-429709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-according","tag-authorities","tag-cruise","tag-from","tag-hantavirus","tag-hantavirusstricken","tag-health","tag-hondius","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-mv","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passenger","tag-quarantine","tag-quarantines","tag-ship","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwanese","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429709","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=429709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}