Vessel monitoring solutions were today revealing the U.S.-flag containership Maersk Idaho as still at support some 8 miles off Virginia Beach, Va., as its proprietor Maersk Line Limited dealt with a strategy to leave the ship’s team to a quarantine center, tidy the vessel, after that bring a brand-new team aboard.
The Virginian-Pilot paper quotes Patrick McCaffery, Maersk Line’s basic guidance as claiming that a participant of the ship’s all-American team dropped ill a couple of days prior to the ship’s arrival in Newark, N.J. The team participant was very first detected with pneumonia by means of telemedicine however, on being hospitalized in Newark, he evaluated favorable for COVID-19.
The Virginian-Pilot prices estimate McCaffery as claiming that the team participant had actually not been onto land considering that signing up with the ship in mid-April
Maersk was not informed of the favorable medical diagnosis up until the ship was en path to Norfolk, Va.
The firm after that informed both the port as well as theCoast Guard Once the ship reached its anchorage factor, a clinical team was flown out, all team participants were evaluated as well as 9 evaluated favorable. All had actually been asymptomatic.
Read the Virginian-Pilot record HERE.