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(Åndalsnes newspaper): A person on board Hurtigruten’s MS Finnmarken hotel ship tested positive for the coronavirus. The person in question is isolated on the ground.
– Hurtigruten was informed on Saturday afternoon that a guest on MS “Finnmarken” tested positive for covid-19. The person in question is a foreign citizen and is associated with the assignment of the letter that Hurtigruten rents to “Finnmarken”, press officer Øystein Knoph in Hurtigruten tells VG.
MS Finnmarken is rented and used as a hotel ship in connection with the recording “Mission: Impossible”, after replacing Fridtjof Nansen. The infected person arrived at the ship in Hellesylt on Saturday morning and shows no symptoms of illness. The result of test number two is expected on Saturday night or Sunday. The person in question is now isolated on the ground. When Hurtigruten receives a clear signal from the authority, the ship will sail towards Åndalsnes, according to Knoph.
There should be no others with symptoms of coronary disease on board the ship.
Finnmarken arrived in Åndalsnes on Tuesday as a hotel ship for the film crew associated with the “Mission Impossible 7” recordings. The ship left Åndalsnes on Friday and is now in Hellesylt.
Municipal Chief Physician Jon Sverre Aursand in Rauma tells Åndalsnes Avis that he is not worried after an infection was found aboard the Finnmarken, and that the ship will return to Åndalsnes.
– I’m not worried about that. There are many agencies involved and we have a very good collaboration. We take it continuously, right now it’s a somewhat confusing situation. So we’ve run a new test and will find out more, says Aursand.
– What precautions will you take as an infection control authority when the ship returns to Åndalsnes?
– We are still in a good dialogue with those who handle it on the ship, and they have a huge apparatus to test people, says Aursand.
The case was first published in the Åndalsnes newspaper.
