Overview
- Health Minister Mónica García said the government will ask passengers to consent to evaluations and isolation but stressed it has legal tools to order quarantines if needed.
- Authorities plan on‑board medical assessments for everyone on the MV Hondius at its planned Tenerife stop, with symptomatic people evacuated and fit passengers flown home.
- Spanish nationals who require isolation are slated to travel by military aircraft to Hospital Gómez Ulla in Madrid, a military facility set up for high‑risk infectious cases.
- Spain’s external health service and the ECDC are working to fix the outbreak’s “day zero,” noting reports of up to 45 days of incubation and adding 23 earlier disembarkations to tracing, including one person from Navarre.
- The Partido Popular asked Congress to summon García, calling the response chaotic after Defense Minister Margarita Robles framed Gómez Ulla quarantines as voluntary and regional leaders complained about poor communication.