Covid-19 out break on merchant vessel named "MAERSK IDAHO"


Covid-19 positive for several crew on board USA flagged merchant ship.

The name of the machine visual is MAERSK IDAHO and it's is a container ship.

On arrival to Newark, the ship was sent to Anchorage outside the port due outbreak of coronavirus positive case.
  • One crew in the ship was with the symptoms of pneumonia and he was taken to the hospital nearby, there he was tested positive for covid-19.

  • She was sailed from Bremerhaven , Germany to Newark, USA.

  • Soon after positive results came the official alerted port authorities and tested all the crew members. 
  • There 9 crew members on board ship were got positive for covid-19.
  • Captain said, the mariner who got positive not been any shore leave since he was joined the ship.
  • MAERSK line company authority is planning to evacuate all the crew from the ship and send them to quarantine, and change the entire crew by sanitizing the entire ship.


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