90-Second Read: Madrid's Gómez Ulla hospital discharges last Hantavirus patient

The rest of the people who were in quarantine at the hospital left on 7 June and there are no longer any people hospitalised in Spain The last Hantavirus patient at the Gómez Ulla hospital in Madrid is now at home after being discharged. This was the second Hantavirus case among the 14 Spaniards (13 passengers and one crew member) who were travelling on the MV Hondius cruise ship. Almost a month after their arrival at Gómez Ulla, the 12 Hantavirus contact patients with consistent negative tests and no symptoms were discharged on 7 June. No Spaniards remain hospitalised due to the outbreak, according to sources at the Ministry of Health.

The first was a 70-year-old man, whose case was detected on 11 May. The 14 Spaniards were admitted to the Gómez Ulla hospital on 10 May, following the evacuation from the ship in Tenerife. The MV Hondius evacuated most of its passengers and crew in Tenerife, from where Spain deployed an unprecedented medical operation to repatriate everyone on board with the highest health and safety standards.

He didn't have any symptoms at the beginning, but eventually developed a low-grade fever. To be discharged, he had to remain symptom-free for at least three days and obtain two negative PCR tests taken 48 hours apart, as per the protocol. The other two, who tested positive at different times, were treated in the high-level isolation unit. There were 143 people of 23 different nationalities aboard.