90-Second Read: Hantavirus latest updates: French passenger develops symptoms during flight home as cruise ship evacuation continues

A French national repatriated from the MV Hondius developed symptoms during the flight home from Tenerife on Sunday, the first reported symptomatic case among the cruise ship's evacuees. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said all five French passengers on the flight were placed in strict isolation upon landing at Le Bourget airport outside Paris. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Alert Network advisory on Friday, alerting doctors and state health departments to be aware of potential imported Hantavirus cases, ABC News reported. As of Friday, six people had been confirmed as infected with Hantavirus and four are hospitalized, according to the World Health Organization. Health authorities from a dozen countries, including the U.S., are scrambling to track down and monitor passengers who disembarked on April 24.

Health officials in Arizona, California, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia are monitoring residents for potential infections linked to the cruise ship. The case is the first reported symptomatic infection among the passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius this weekend. Spanish authorities had said earlier in the day that all passengers were screened for symptoms before being allowed to disembark in Tenerife and that none had shown signs of illness. Those on board are being transferred by smaller boats to the Port of Granadilla, then taken in sealed-off buses to the airport for repatriation flights. Helena, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic, without contact tracing, nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on board.

Health officials in Arizona, California, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia are monitoring residents for potential infections. Tedros, who traveled to Tenerife to oversee the evacuation, told reporters Sunday after the first plane departed that "the risk to the public is low... The passengers are receiving medical care and will undergo testing and a full health assessment, he said. Lecornu said he would issue a decree later Sunday to implement isolation measures for close contacts of the symptomatic passenger and protect the public, per CNN. The MV Hondius arrived off the coast of Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands, early Sunday morning local time.

New Jersey was the latest state to announce it was tracking residents. As a result, these five passengers were immediately placed in strict isolation until further notice," Lecornu wrote in a post on X Sunday. Three people have died: a Dutch couple and a German national.