STORY: Video released on April 26 by a passenger of the MV Hondius showed the remote island of Tristan da Cunha, where new suspected cases of hantavirus was reported on Friday (May 8).

The video showed the cruise ship approaching the island and Kasem Ibn Hattuta, the passenger who uploaded the video touring Tristan da Cunha.

The exact date was not verified but Kasem has been recording his journey onboard Hondius for several days. The ship made a stop on Tristan da Cunha on April 13 to 15. The island’s topography matched archive and satellite imagery of Tristan da Cunha. The vessel’s identity was verified from its exterior features, which matched archive imagery and Reuters own cover.

Tristan da Cunha, home to only around 200 people, is halfway between South Africa and South America and the world's remotest inhabited island, more than 1,500 miles and a six-day boat ride from St Helena, its nearest inhabited neighbour.

Two new suspected cases of hantavirus were reported on Friday, one in Spain and the other on the island, as experts race to contain an outbreak that began on the luxury cruise ship.

The announcements in locations thousands of miles apart will fuel concern about a cluster of cases so far associated with three deaths - though the World Health Organization has repeatedly said the risk to the wider public is low and the virus does not transmit easily.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

VIDEO SHOWS: VARIOUS OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA ISLAND / SOUNDBITES FROM MV HONDIUS CRUISE PASSENGER/

VERIFIED BY:

-Exact date not verified but Kasem has been recording his journey onboard Hondius for several days

-The ship made a stop on Tristan da Cunha Island on April 13 to 15

-The island’s topography matched archive and satellite imagery of Tristan da Cunha

-Vessel’s identity verified from its exterior features, which matched archive imagery and Reuters own cover

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SHOWS: AT SEA (RELEASED ON APRIL 26, 2026) (KASEM IBN HATTUTA - No resales / No archive / News use only / Must-on screen courtesy Kasem Ibn Hattuta)

1. VARIOUS OF MV HONDIUS SAILING THROUGH WAVES AS IT APPROACHES TRISTAN DA CUNHA ISLAND

2. TRAVEL CONTENT CREATOR AND HONDIUS PASSENGER KASEM IBN HATTUTA IN HIS CABIN, SAYING (ARABIC): "Oh my Lord, oh God, a wave just hit us, I saw the water rising up.”

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TRAVEL CONTENT CREATOR AND HONDIUS PASSENGER, KASEM IBN HATTUTA, SAYING: (FILMING HIMSELF)

"Finally the time has come for us to land on the most remote inhabited island in the world. Let's go.”

4. IBN HATTUTA ON A SMALL BOAT HEADING TO DA CUNHA ISLAND, SAYING (ARABIC):

“We say goodbye to the ship, and our new adventure begins.”

5. VIEW OF THE ISLAND FROM SMALL BOAT

TRISTAN DA CUNHA ISLAND (RELEASED ON APRIL 26, 2026) (KASEM IBN HATTUTA - No resales / No archive / News use only / Must-on screen courtesy Kasem Ibn Hattuta)

6. PASSENGERS DISEMBARKING FROM SMALL BOAT / AUDIO OF IBN HATTUTA, SAYING (ARABIC): “The dream has come true.”

7. VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE ISLAND

8. TRISTAN DA CUNHA FLAG

9. IBN HATTUTA POINTING AT SIGN READING (English): Welcome to Tristan Da Cunha" / AUDIO OF IBN HATTUTA, SAYING (ARABIC):

“Welcome to Tristan da Cunha. Here are the coordinates of the island, for those who are interested.”

10. SIGN AT ISLAND

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TRAVEL CONTENT CREATOR AND HONDIUS PASSENGER, KASEM IBN HATTUTA, SAYING: (FILMING HIMSELF AND POINTING AT SIGN)

“The famous sign that tells you ‘Welcome to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote island in the world.” It's officially written here. And here we have how much is the distance between the nearest places to us, we have Tokyo approximately 20,000 kilometres."

AT SEA (RELEASED ON APRIL 26, 2026) (KASEM IBN HATTUTA - No resales / No archive / News use only / Must-on screen courtesy Kasem Ibn Hattuta)

12. VARIOUS OF IBN HATTUTA AND PASSENGERS GETTING OFF SMALL BOAT AND GETTING ON MV HONDIUS

13. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TRAVEL CONTENT CREATOR AND HONDIUS PASSENGER, KASEM IBN HATTUTA, SAYING:

"Honestly we were very lucky, many people arrive here and in the end it doesn't work out for them to even land on the island after they arrive. We arrived and we landed and we had a full day. I mean it would have been nicer if we spent a bit more time, but it didn’t work out.”

14. VARIOUS OF THE CRUISE SHIP