Canadian consular officials head to Canary Islands to meet hantavirus cruise ship

TORONTO — Consular officials are on their way to the Canary Islands to meet with four Canadians on board a deadly hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

The federal government says three people with connections to the cruise are isolating at home in Ontario and Quebec, but they aren’t showing symptoms.

Officials have not said when and where the affected people arrived in Canada, or whether public health officials would brief the media.

Spanish authorities are prepared to receive more than 140 asymptomatic passengers and crew who have been isolating on the boat when it docks this weekend in Granadilla, Tenerife.