Evacuated cruise passengers begin flights home from Canary Islands
A report said passengers had started flying home after being evacuated from a cruise ship described as stricken by hantavirus.
According to the report, passengers evacuated from the cruise ship began departing the Canary Islands on flights home. The account linked the evacuations to hantavirus aboard the vessel.
The report characterized the ship as hantavirus-stricken but did not provide further verified details in the supplied information about the vessel or the passengers. It also did not specify the passengers’ home destinations.
The cruise-ship news video carrying the report was dated Aug. 23, 2026. Its listed publication time was 11:19 p.m. EDT.
The supplied information establishes that the passengers had been evacuated and had begun flying home from the Canary Islands, while the description of the ship’s condition and the hantavirus connection were attributed to the report.