The first passengers evacuated from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked near Spain’s Canary Islands have been flown home. Fourteen Spanish nationals on the chartered flight from Tenerife face mandatory quarantine at a military hospital in the capital, Madrid. They were followed by French nationals taken to Paris and Britons taken to Manchester. Staff involved in the operation in Tenerife pulled white hazmat suits over the evacuees’ clothes and hosed them down on the airport tarmac. Three people have died in the outbreak on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius, including two who were confirmed to have had hantavirus. Flights for Turkish, Irish and US citizens are also planned for Sunday, with other countries also preparing repatriation flights. Spain’s Health Minister Mónica García said the operation was “proceeding normally” and that all passengers aboard the MV Hondius were asymptomatic.