Operator Hurtigruten line was the first to resume cruises following a three-month halt due to the global coronavirus pandemic
People clean the MS Roald Amundsen ship after passengers and crew members were diagnosed with the coronavirus disease, at a port in Tromso, Norway, August 2 2020. Picture: TERJE PEDERSEN/NTB SCANPIX/REUTERS
While the crew was quarantined on the ship, the 178 passengers who arrived on Friday were allowed to disembark before anyone had been diagnosed, triggering a complex operation to locate them to contain any potential spread. The Hurtigruten line, owner of the MS Roald Amundsen as well as 15 other vessels, in mid-June became the first to return an oceangoing cruise ship to service after a three-month halt due to the pandemic.
“We are working hard to contain this outbreak to limit the spread in the general population,” Tromsoe municipality chief doctor Kathrine Kristoffersen told a news conference.
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