President Trump said Monday that the US is being “very careful” about the ongoing hantavirus outbreak after the deadly virus spread among passengers from multiple countries on a South Atlantic cruise.

Trump said that the Andes hantavirus strain is “much harder to catch” than COVID-19.

“We’ve it’s been around for a long time. People are very familiar with it. So, you know, I hope it’s fine. All I can do is everything that a president can do, which is some which is actually somewhat limited, but it seems like it is not easy to spread,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

A person in a biohazard suit assists in the disembarkation of a passenger evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius, which was affected by a hantavirus outbreak, and arrived on a chartered aircraft at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska early Monday. REUTERS

Trump answers a question from a reporter during an event on maternal healthcare in the Oval Office on Monday.…