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On Sunday a ship arrived in Bergen. After extensive testing, it became clear that the ship was full of corona: 17 crew members were infected and one of those infected was lying dead on board.
NRK has followed the ship’s route through time. It shows how the ship apparently got the infection out of Russia and sailed for several weeks with it on board.
Only nearly four weeks later the infection was detected and confirmed, after the ship sailed to Norway for help.
As NRK wrote yesterday, the chronology also shows that the crew sailed for two days with a dead colleague on board.
November 26: Murmansk
The fishing trawler “Oma” left its home port of Murmansk on 26 November. The next day the ship was in the port of Kirkenes for two and a half hours.
The trawler is registered in the port on November 27 in the period of time between 11:58 and 2:21 on this day.
The ship received supplies. It was not recorded what goods they received on board.
– We have not had physical contact with any of them. Now all communication is done electronically. We have not recorded that anyone from the crew has disembarked, nor that anyone from here has come on board, he says. Port Manager Muang-San Lwin at the Port of Kirkenes.
ONE MONTH: Probably no one from the crew has ever been ashore at Kirkenes.
Photo: Oddgeir Øystese / NRK
– He must have come on board a long time ago.
The trawler has not been to other ports since.
– The infection must have appeared on board when they were ashore a long time ago, says Acting Chief Infection Control Doctor Egil Bovim in Bergen Municipality.
He believes the infection is unlikely to have gotten on board through supplies at Kirkenes.
ROUTE: The Russian trawler left Murmansk on November 26. The ship received supplies at Kirkenes the next day.
Photo: Boat Finder
The death notice
Three weeks later, on Friday December 18, Ålesund crisis management was notified that there was one fatality on board.
– The ship made a request to add here. Then it was a day and a half, says municipal chief doctor Olav Mestad in Ålesund municipality.
The national authorities were notified and the trawler was asked to dock in the port of Bergen, which has been designated as a port of emergency.
The 34-person crew was tested for coronavirus. 18 people tested positive for the virus and one of them died.
Died on friday
The man died on Friday, December 18. The person was diagnosed with the virus after his death, Bovim claims.
It’s no surprise that about half the crew have tested negative for coronavirus so far.
– It may have taken a long time to spread the infection around the ship. They may have kept a good distance and upheld the infection control rules. It’s those factors that decide, he says.
WARNING: The fishing trawler “Oma” left its home port of Murmansk on 26 November. The next day the ship was in the port of Kirkenes for two and a half hours. The ship was in the British Isles when they notified the Ålesund municipality that they had a dead on board.
– You want them to have a good time
People who were diagnosed with coronavirus are now isolated on the trawler. Those who tested negative for COVID-19 were housed in a quarantine hotel on Monday afternoon.
– The crew is doing very well, from what we have learned. They needed mobile phone chargers and have provided them. They are very happy to enter the hotel.
This is what Alpha Sefland Winge says in the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Section of the Bergen Municipality, which is in charge of taking care of the crew.
– We are heading into Christmas now, and we want the crew to have the best possible time, says Winge.
You can request conversation with the pastor.
Russian Orthodox priest Dmitry Ostanin has asked to meet with the crew.
During the day, a letter in Russian will be distributed to the hotel crew, with information that the Russian Orthodox press can be contacted for pastoral care.
– It is important that they do not feel abandoned, but that there is someone who thinks of them. We must show our human efforts when such things happen. They are in a difficult situation now, he says.
