In total, this means that 33 people tested positive for covid-19 after riding the ship - all belong to the crew. It was yesterday that the expedition ship was isolated at a quay in Tromsö in Norway after four of a total of 160 crew members were found to have covid-19.

Yesterday, a total of four people on board the ship were cared for in hospital. On Saturday, the hospital announced that no new people on board the ship had been admitted.

Quarantined

On Friday morning, a total of 177 passengers and 160 crew members were quarantined.

On Wednesday, it became known that a person who had traveled with the cruise ship between 17 and 24 July to Svalbard had tested positive for covid-19, reports NRK.

According to Hurtigruten's management, several of those now found infected on board the ship were isolated several days ago. At that time they had no symptoms of covid-19 and were not suspected of carrying any corona infection. All passengers had left the ship when the corona fall came to the attention of the chief medical officer.

- We made an assessment when it became known that a passenger from a previous voyage had been shown covid-19 a few days after disembarkation. An assessment was then made as to whether symptoms of covid-19 were present in the crew, in passengers who were on board, or who had disembarked. It did not exist, says Daniel Skjeldam, CEO of the Hurtigrutten group, who points out that the shipping company followed national and international rules.

According to the company, MS Roald Amundsen has had about 250 passengers on board on each cruise to Svalbard. If more people turn out to be infected, this could mean the largest cluster outbreak of covid-19 in Norway since the pandemic broke out.

Talked to passengers

In Tromsö, the municipality's goal is to talk to all people who were on board the ship and who have left. On Friday, Tromsø municipality had spoken to 89 of them.

On Saturday, Norwegian authorities announced that 60 of the passengers who do not live in Tromsö had been quarantined in the city. The passengers who are not from Tromsö may not travel further.