Overview
- The person who tested positive for hantavirus after travel from France has returned a negative PCR, been discharged from isolation and begun travel back to their place of origin.
- Two household close contacts also tested negative but remain in home quarantine under the Ministry of Health protocol.
- Health authorities set a 42-day isolation period for the case series counted from July 28 and continue active monitoring of the quarantined contacts.
- The national alert body identified four additional flight contacts in Catalonia, Madrid and Castilla y León who are asymptomatic and are in domiciliary quarantine under regional follow-up.
- Regional public health director Carmen Durán and national officials said the case was handled under established protocols, stressed hantavirus is not the same as COVID‑19, and reported no confirmed community transmission in Galicia.