“I’m on board the MV Hondius right now and what’s happening right now is very real to all of us. We’re not just a story. We’re not just headlines. We’re people with families, lives and people waiting for us at home. There’s a lot of uncertainty and that’s the hardest thing. All we want right now is to feel safe and clear and get home. So if you see news about this, remember that there are real people behind this and that it’s not happening somewhere far away,” a visibly moved Rosmarin described in the video he posted on Instagram on Monday.
A day later he added another post. “I’m trying to keep at least a little hope now,” he wrote.
“At the moment, the priority is to ensure that the sick receive the necessary care and also get to a place where we can safely disembark and receive medical assistance,” he described, adding that “everyone on board is doing well.”
Another infected person is in Switzerland
The ship anchored at the Cape Verde Islands should be received by the Spanish Canary Islands, two sick people and one person considered a “risk contact” should be transported separately by air, according to the newspaper El País, and then they should be transported to the Netherlands and Germany. One seriously ill person is in the intensive care unit in the Republic of South Africa.
At the same time, the Swiss government announced on Wednesday that doctors in Zurich are treating another patient with hantavirus who was on this cruise ship, where several people became infected. The Swiss are said to be in no danger.
“There is still some uncertainty, but it is reassuring to know there is a plan and I hope to be able to share more information soon,” said Rosmarin, who expressed gratitude to the crew and the ship’s operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, for how they are handling the difficult situation.
