Three people with possible symptoms of the disease were evacuated on Wednesday morning from the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius.
The passengers of the MV Hondius, in the grip of a deadly virus outbreak, are putting on movies, sanitizing their hands repeatedly and awaiting their next socially distanced meal as their ship sails the Atlantic.
The nearly 150 people on board were practicing the kind of rigorous hygiene familiar from the coronavirus pandemic, while the crew frequently cleans hand rails and other high-contact surfaces.
They were hunkered down on board as officials in Spain on Wednesday laid out a contentious plan to receive the ship in the Canary Islands this week, over the objections of local leaders.