Four crew members on a Norwegian cruise vessel were diagnosed with Covid-19 after it arrived at the Arctic port of Tromso early today, said the University Hospital of North Norway where they are being treated.
All 160 crew members on the Roald Amundsen have been quarantined on the ship, while the 177 passengers - all of whom have already disembarked - are being contacted by telephone and are being told to self-isolate, operator Hurtigruten said. "By the time we were notified, the passengers had left the ship," Tromso municipality chief doctor Kathrine Kristoffersen told a news conference. "All passengers will, for the time being, be asked to quarantine." The four patients are all foreign citizens, the hospital said, while declining to