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An American has tested positive and a French traveller developed symptoms aboard their separate aircraft journey after passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship began flying home aboard military and government planes.

One of the 17 American passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms, US health officials said today.

Earlier, one of the five French passengers developed symptoms on their flight home, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said in a statement, and all were put into strict isolation with plans to be tested.

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Passengers were evacuated from the MV Hondius following its arrival in Tenerife, the largest island in the Spanish archipelago off the West African coast.

Earlier, officials from the Spanish Health Ministry, the World Health Organisation, and the cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions had said none of the more than 140 people who were then on the Hondius had shown symptoms of the virus.

The aircraft carrying the Americans was due to arrive in Omaha, Nebraska today.

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They would first be taken to the University of Nebraska, which has a federally funded quarantine facility, to assess whether they have been in close contact with any symptomatic people and their risk levels for spreading the virus.

"One passenger will be transported to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit upon arrival, while other passengers will go to the National Quarantine Unit for assessment and monitoring. The passenger who is going to the Biocontainment Unit tested positive for the virus but does not have symptoms," said Kayla Thomas, a spokesperson for The Nebraska Medical Centre.

From the ship, all of the passengers were escorted to shore by personnel in full-body protective gear and breathing masks.

Spanish passengers were the first to leave, flown to Madrid and taken to a military hospital.

Hours later, a plane that evacuated French passengers landed in Paris, where it was met by emergency vehicles.

Meanwhile, plans for the Australians from the ship have been revealed.

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Australians will be taken to a Sydney hospital once they arrive home.

NSW Health said it's working with the federal government on the plan for the four Australian passengers from the ship, where three people have died.

They'll be taken to the NSW Biocontainment Centre at Westmead Hospital once they get home from the Canaries, where it is now docked.

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Unveiled in 2023, it is a special unit to isolate patients with rare, highly infectious diseases.

The cruise ship patients will be assessed and have quarantine arrangements planned.

They're due to land in a charter flight in Perth tomorrow.

"These passengers will be closely monitored, and should any develop symptoms, they will be assessed by an infectious diseases physician and be provided appropriate care," NSW Health said.

"The risk to the public is low."

– with Associated Press

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A Victorian carpenter is being taken to court for allegedly threatening to sack a teenage apprentice if he took sick leave.

Caleb Geoffrey Stubbs – a sole trader who operates CS Carpentry in Geelong – is also accused of underpaying the apprentice and another young casual worker and failing to cooperate with Fair Work's attempts to investigate the claims.

The Fair Work Ombudsman launched the investigation after receiving requests for help from the two 18-year-olds who were employed by Stubbs in 2022 and 2023.

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One was employed as an apprentice carpenter between November 2022 and January 2023. and the other as a casual construction worker for a week in November 2022.

According to Fair Work, on the morning of January 19, 2023, the apprentice messaged his employer on Snapchat stating he was unwell and wouldn't be able to work that day.

It's then that Fair Work alleges Stubbs threatened to not pay the apprentice for a week if he didn't come to work and to terminate his employment if he took personal leave in the future.

The carpenter also stands accused of failing to comply with a Compliance Notice from Fair Work in April of the same year, after a Fair Work investigator pursued him for allegedly underpaying the casual worker and failing to pay the apprentice's public holiday and leave entitlements.

Stubbs also allegedly breached pay slip laws.

"Sick leave is a fundamental lawful entitlement," Acting Fair Work Ombudsman Rachel Volzke said.

"Workers have a right to access their leave entitlements without negative consequences.

"Taking action to protect employees who may be vulnerable, such as young workers, and improving compliance in the building and construction industry are priorities for the Fair Work Ombudsman."

Stubbs faces a fine of up to $8250 over the Compliance Notice issue as well as $16,500 for each of the alleged pay slip and adverse action contraventions.

The regulator is also seeking a court order directing Stubbs to comply with the Compliance Notice, including rectifying outstanding payments to the young employees.

The case against Stubbs will be heard in the Federal Circuit and Family Court in Melbourne on May 21.

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