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Thirty-nine positives to the Covid-19 on a Cruise Ship for Hurtigruten expeditions
Testing and quarantine for the 387 passengers on two cruises
August 3, 2020
In fact, 36 of the 158 members were positive crew of the cruise ship for Roald expeditions Amundsen that they were all tested to check possible Covid-19 infection after four seafarers were positive results, as well as positive results were three passengers of the ship that is currently stationary at Troms, Norway, with no passengers on board. Hurtigruten specified that none of the 154 crew members still aboard the including the last 32 positive test results Saturday, they show symptoms of the disease.
Hurtigruten has announced that it is in contact with all 209 passengers who were on board the cruise ship departing July 17th from Tromsi as well as with all 178 passengers who were on board the Roald Amundsen for the next cruise departed on July 24 from Troms, passengers -- explained the company -- who voluntarily quarantined places as required by the authorities' rules Norwegian health care system. The director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Line Vold, confirmed that all passengers of the two cruises must be tested and must comply with the ten-day quarantine period.
Roald Amundsen was due to sail on Friday for a cruise to the Svalbard archipelago, but has been cancelled. Currently, no programmes have been planned departures until September.
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