90-Second Read: Hantavirus: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?

Up to 150 people have started flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain's Canary Islands, and the World Health Organization has recommended, but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine once they have landed. Passengers wore blue medical suits and breathing masks as they disembarked MV Hondius on to smaller boats, according to observers. In Australia, passengers will be taken by ambulance to a hospital to undergo assessment and establish suitable quarantine arrangements. The WHO recommends a 42-day quarantine and "active follow-up", including daily checks for symptoms such as fever.

Greece's health ministry said a male evacuee will spend 45 days in mandatory hospital quarantine in Athens. After that, they will be given the choice of staying in Nebraska or going home, where their conditions would be monitored by state and local health agencies. The Philippines government has confirmed 38 Filipino seafarers working on the ship will quarantine in Rotterdam before repatriation home. Evacuees then changed into new protective equipment and pictures showed them on the tarmac being sprayed down by medical officers before boarding repatriation charter flights.

Here's what we know about how different countries are managing quarantine. Some health experts are concerned people may not strictly isolate for six weeks. At a quarantine facility, their risk levels for spreading the virus will be assessed. But officials have so far stressed the risk for global public health is low.

India confirmed that two of its nationals on board the ship, working as crew, had been evacuated to the Netherlands where they will be quarantined. Three passengers, a Dutch husband and wife and a German woman, have died, and a small number have fallen sick with the disease. The group will initially stay for 72 hours, and arrangements for further isolation assessed.