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Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak have arrived in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks. The jet carrying five Australians and one person from New Zealand landed Friday at an air base outside Perth in Western Australia. The passengers and crew were to spend their quarantine in a facility built for the COVID-19 pandemic. Australia's health minister says all six tested negative for the virus. Three people among the 11 cases in the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius ship have died. The ship was on a cruise from Argentina to the Antarctic and then to several South Atlantic islands when the outbreak was identified.