{"id":466371,"date":"2026-06-08T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:11:10","slug":"two-singaporeans-complete-quarantine-after-returning-from-cruise-with-deadly-hantavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466371\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Singaporeans complete quarantine after returning from cruise with deadly hantavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 \u2014 Two Singapore residents who were on board the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius have reportedly been released from quarantine after testing negative for the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Singapore-based CNA reported that the Communicable Diseases Agency said yesterday the men, aged 67 and 65, completed quarantine on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBoth of them are well, and have tested negative for hantavirus, including the Andes virus, before release from quarantine,\u201d the agency was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The men had been on the MV Hondius when it left Ushuaia in Argentina on April 1, before the cruise ship later reported an outbreak of Andes hantavirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two men arrived in Singapore on May 2 and May 6 respectively and were isolated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, where they initially tested negative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CNA reported that they will now undergo phone surveillance for the rest of the 45-day monitoring period from their last exposure, which is the maximum incubation period for hantavirus exposure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WHO said that, as of May 27, the MV Hondius-linked Andes hantavirus outbreak had recorded 13 cases, including three deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 \u2014 Two Singapore residents who were on board the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[236150,69107,167238,134,213202,111,139,69,236149],"class_list":["post-466371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-communicable-diseases","tag-cruise-ship","tag-hantavirus","tag-health","tag-hondius","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-singapore-residents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466371","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=466371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}