Article confusingly says it was reported 29 months ago, in 2022. So, I don't know what the actual timeline is. But they haven't fixed it and now it's out there.
Also serviceworkers, LOL.
Director of WHO has taken the somewhat unprecedented step of directly addressing peoples' concerns. We'll see if he's right or if this ends up on r/agedlikemilk in 6 months.
Still kind of bugs me that "The risk to you, living your daily life in Tenerife, is low." If the risk isn't zero then why take the risk at all. There's no harm in keeping people quarantined on the ship until everything is definitely cleared, and there's no benefit in sending them home. Even if it's like a 0.1% chance that this is a new mutation that's more contagious, and one passenger has it. Why roll the dice. There's absolutely no reason these people have to get off the ship right now.
Edit to add, also this:
"...passengers will be ferried ashore at the industrial port of Granadilla, far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries."
This implies that WHO believes there is some level of risk. It's crazy to take these precautions, then shunt them all over the globe and let each home country deal with it in their own, potentially incompetent, way. If WHO doesn't think it's safe enough to let them deboard and immediately walk to the most crowded place in town, then it doesn't seem like it's safe enough to let them off the ship at all.