According to media reports in the Galicia region of Spain on the evening of February 14, local time, 54 crew members on a fishing boat going to sea from the city of Vigo in the region were quarantined in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, due to an outbreak of new crown pneumonia on board. In the port of Tia, 28 people have been infected with the new coronary pneumonia.
It was reported that only 2 of them had mild symptoms, and the remaining infected cases were asymptomatic.
The fishing boat was planned to sail from Spain to the waters of the Malvinas Islands, anchored at the port of Vigo in November and December 2020, and left the Canary Islands to cross the Atlantic Ocean from January 28 to Malvina. Port Stanley in the Isles.
On February 11, local time, when the fishing boat stopped in Montevideo for replenishment, local medical staff detected that a crew member was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia, and all crew members were quarantined and were not allowed to enter or leave the boat.
(Headquarters reporter Wei Fan)