India, May 8 -- US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had been briefed on the concerning cruise ship-outbreak of hantavirus, and added that he hoped it was very much under control.

Trump's comments came during an impromptu visit to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, where he has ordered a renovation project.

"It's very much, we hope, under control," Trump told reporters Thursday. "It was the ship, and I think we're going to make a full report about it tomorrow. We have a lot of people. It's a lot of great people are studying it. It should be fine," he said.

An outbreak of the rare hantavirus emerged over weeks on a Duth-flagged cruise ship - MV Hondius - as it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.

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