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Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen – traveling from port to port along Norway's western coast, the virus may not have been contained onboard
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- Title
- Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship, could spread along coast
- Published
- Aug 3 2020
- Word count
- 440 words
Does it not seem really irresponsible to be either operating cruises or taking a cruise at this point in time?
USA Today wrote about how this was the first international cruise since the lockdown on the 13th of July.
Today Hurtigruten has admitted that they violated their internal policies for virus containment. That's pretty silly when you're pushing to be the world's first at something for good PR and fee attention.
Norwegian police is now investigating if they broke corona-related laws, which they pretty obviously did.
I think AP has got their facts mixed up a bit here.
The company Hurtigruten operates a passenger/cargo line from Bergen in the south-west to Kirkenes in the north-east, which does indeed make stops in dozens of towns and villages along the coast. They also operate what they call expedition ships, which generally depart from a large port to an exotic destination. The ship Roald Amundsen from this article is an expedition ship, which as far as I can tell from Norwegian media left from Tromsø to Svalbard and back, making no stops along the way (because really, there are no places to stop along the way; it's all open ocean between Tromsø and Svalbard). There is thus no way this ship could have spread the virus along the coast.