China News Service, July 14th, according to Agence France-Presse, 35 days after a fishing boat in Argentina, 57 of the 61 crew members were diagnosed with the new coronavirus. However, before the crew had left the port, the New Coronavirus test was negative.
On the 13th local time, an official from the Ministry of Health of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, said that some of the crew members of the Echizen Maru trawlers had previously experienced typical symptoms of infection with the new coronavirus, so the fishing boat returned to the port.
According to the official of the Ministry of Health, 57 of the 61 crew members were diagnosed with new coronavirus in the newly conducted virus test. However, all crew members had to perform a 14-day forced quarantine at a hotel in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego before going to sea. The Ministry of Health said in a statement that before the mandatory quarantine, their new coronavirus test was negative.
According to the provincial emergency action committee, in addition to the 57 crew members who have been diagnosed, 2 of the remaining 4 crew members have a negative virus test result, and the other 2 are waiting for the test result.
Alejandra Alfaro, director of primary health care in Tierra del Fuego, said, "It is difficult to determine how these crew members were infected because they have not been in contact with the land for 35 days, and the supplies (on board) are only from Ushuai Asiaport."
Leandro Baratore, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Ushuaia Regional Hospital, said that this was an unreported case, "because there has not been such a long (virus) incubation period reported elsewhere."