Forty one people who recently traveled on a Hurtigruten cruise ship have tested positive for COVID-19 amid the global outbreak of the viral disease, the Norwegian cruise company has confirmed.
Now, health officials fear the MS Roald Amundsen may have infected dozens of towns and villages along the western coast of Norway.
Norwegian cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen moored in Tromso, Norway on Aug.
A cruise line executive cited procedural errors in explaining the coronavirus cluster.
Hurtigruten has reached out to guests who traveled on the MS Roald Amundsen for voyages from July 17 to 24 and July 25 to 31, cruising from Bergen in the south to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
As the cruise ship line often acts as a local ferry, sailing from port to port along Norway's western coast, the viral disease may not have been contained aboard the cruise ship.
However, as the cruise ship line often acts as a local ferry, sailing from port to port along Norway's western coast, the viral disease may not have been contained aboard the cruise ship, the Associated Press reports.
Now, Tromsoe is urging anyone who traveled on or who came in contact with the MS Roald Amundsen to reach out to health authorities.
NTB reported that 33 of the 36 Hurtigruten crew members who recently tested positive arrived from the Philippines, while others came from Norway, France and Germany.
Crew members clean on board Hurtigruten's vessel MS Roald Amundsen on Aug.
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