The government of the Canary Islands, Spain, announced that it will not authorize the docking of the ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak. The decision, announced on the night of Saturday, May 9th, was made just hours before the scheduled start of the operation. According to the president of the Canary Islands government, Fernando Clavijo, the reason for the ship not being allowed into the local port is the lack of information about the safety of the procedures that would be adopted. "Collaboration, yes. Solidarity, also. But not at any price. Not without reports, not with impositions from the State and not endangering the sanitary safety of the people of the Canary Islands," he wrote on X. In a press conference, he also stated that the local government does not have "any technical knowledge that guarantees that the risk of the MV Hondius operation is zero" and that the technical criteria advise that the cruise ship "remain as little time as possible in the Canary Islands." According to the American newspaper ABC, the local government was reportedly annoyed by the lack of responses from the World Health Organization (WHO) and from authorities of the Spanish government, such as the Minister of Health, Mónica García. The Spanish newspaper El País affirms that, after Clavijo's decision, the Spanish government had ordered the Canary Islands to receive the ship.