Authorities in Spain have begun evacuating passengers from the cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, which arrived in Tenerife earlier today.
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The UK Health Security Agency says 22 British passengers and crew will be transferred to an isolation unit at Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral in Merseyside.
The head of the World Health Organisation has said the outbreak is 'not another Covid', and the risk to the public is low.
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