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Foreign sailors go shopping without being tested
Yesterday around 6pm, police received reports of a group of foreign sailors seen in a grocery shop in Fuglafjørður, Eysturoy.
When the police arrived in Fuglafjørður, the men had returned to their oil tanker, named Key Fighter, which was unloading cod-liver oil at the port of Fuglafjørður.
Locals had expressed concern about this after 33 crew members on a Russian trawler and a Lithuanian cargo ship tested Covid-19 positive last month.
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According to the harbour master, the crew had not been tested for Covid-19 before disembarking the ship.
The ship’s captain and its Faroese representative had received clear instructions that the crew were not allowed to go beyond a restricted area on the harbour.
Key Fighter, which is registered in Malta, left the port of Fuglafjørður last night.
Translated by prosa.fo