TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Two Singapore residents who were on board the hantavirus-linked cruise ship MV Hondius are currently being isolated at Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and undergoing testing for the virus, according to CNA.
Singapore’s Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Thursday that one patient had a runny nose but was otherwise in good condition, while the other showed no symptoms.
“Their test results are pending. The risk to the general public in Singapore is currently low,” the agency said.
CDA said the two men, a 67-year-old Singaporean and a 65-year-old Singapore permanent resident, had been aboard the MV Hondius after it departed from Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1 before an outbreak of Andes hantavirus was reported on the vessel.
Both men had disembarked from the ship and were on the same flight from St Helena to Johannesburg on April 25 as a confirmed hantavirus patient who later died in South Africa. The infected patient did not travel to Singapore.
As of Wednesday, eight cases, including three deaths, had been linked to the cruise ship cluster. Three infections have been confirmed as hantavirus cases, while the remaining cases are still under investigation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has assessed that the risk of hantavirus spread linked to cases detected among passengers aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean remains relatively low.
"As of 4 May 2026, since 1 April when the ship set sail, there have been seven hantavirus cases (two confirmed and five suspected), including three deaths," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday on the social media platform X.
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