The Ministry of Health has activated "active surveillance" on four passengers who were on board a connecting KLM flight to Rome. A woman who had been on board the MV Hondius for a few minutes had boarded the flight, and was later hospitalized in Johannesburg, where she died from Hantavirus.

The contact details of the four, a statement emphasizes, have been acquired and the information forwarded to the relevant regions: Calabria, Campania, Tuscany, and Veneto , so that surveillance could be activated "with the utmost caution."

The risk of contagion, however, is very low, the ministry specifies : "The assessments shared internationally by the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control currently indicate a low risk for the general population worldwide and very low in Europe."

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(Unioneonline)

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