After the outbreak of the Coronavirus among the crew of a passenger ship in Norway 29 other Crew have been tested members positive for the Virus. Thus, the number of detected infections increasing from four to 33, as the shipping company Hurtigruten on Saturday announced. The Corona-testing of 120 of the 158 crew members of the “Roald Amundsen” were negative, and five others will need to be tested.
The expedition ship lying further in the North-Norwegian Tromsø anchor and become isolated, the passengers were not on Board. Schedule had to pierce the “Roald Amundsen” on Friday afternoon in the direction of Spitsbergen in the lake. The trip was however cancelled, after Friday, the first infections in members of the crew of the ship had become known. These four persons came in a University hospital.