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Coronavirus outbreak on live export ship in Fremantle doubles in size as more crew test positive - ABC News

Coronavirus outbreak on live export ship in Fremantle doubles in size as more crew test positive - ABC News

Coronavirus outbreak on live export ship in Fremantle doubles in size as more crew test positive - ABC News
May 28, 2020 1 min, 20 secs

There have been six new cases of COVID-19 confirmed among crew members of the Al Kuwait livestock carrier currently under quarantine in Fremantle Port.

The news comes just days after an initial six crew members tested positive following the ship's arrival in WA last week.

Three of the most recent group of Al Kuwait crew members who tested positive were still onboard and were set to be transferred to quarantine in a Perth hotel.

The other crew members to test positive were already under isolation at the Novotel Hotel in Perth after being transported there on Wednesday.

There are 10 crew members still on board the livestock carrier and all have been tested for the virus, along with all the crew under quarantine at the hotel.

The total number of active COVID-19 cases in WA now sits at 18, with one infected West Australian, five Australians from interstate and 12 crew members from the Al Kuwait.

WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan said it was possible most of the Al Kuwait crew could be flown out of Australia, while a skeleton crew sailed the ship out of Fremantle.

Ms MacTiernan said it would be more difficult to quarantine people on a livestock carrier than it had been to quarantine crew members on cruise ships in Fremantle in April.

The livestock carrier had come to Fremantle to pick up the animals, which were bound for the Middle East.

Ms MacTiernan said she was hopeful the federal Department of Agriculture would grant an exemption which would allow the shipment of sheep to leave Fremantle aboard another vessel during the first week of June.

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