Eighty-five crew members on an American Seafoods ship tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to the company.
The American Triumph, an American Seafoods vessel, departed Oregon on June 27 and headed to Alaska with 119 crew members to fish for pollock, the company wrote in a statement. Seven crew members reported COVID-19 symptoms two weeks after the ship departed, and they were tested in Unalaska shortly after arriving on Thursday. Six of the seven tested positive.
After testing all the remaining crew members, 79 more workers were found to be positive, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases on the American Triumph to 85, according to a statement from the city.
It was not immediately clear how many of the crew members were experiencing COVID-19 symptoms prior to testing, but American Seafoods spokeswoman Suzanne Lugoni said the company prescreens employees before they board the ships and no one showed COVID-19 symptoms prior to departure.
The American Triumph is a 285-foot factory trawler, part of a fleet of six fishing vessels owned by Seattle-based American Seafoods.
Lugoni said all of the crew members remained on the ship after it docked in Unalaska to prevent spreading the virus to the community.
All of the crew members will isolate in Anchorage, she said.
The 34 crew members who tested negative will take a charter flight from Unalaska to Anchorage, where they will undergo quarantine and symptom monitoring, the city said.
The infected crew members underwent additional medical screening from Iliuliuk Family & Health Services Clinic providers Sunday, according to the city. They will sail on the ship to Seward late Sunday or early Monday with medical professionals on board, the city wrote.
The infected crew members will get directly onto waiting buses when the ship docks in Seward midday Wednesday, according to a statement from the City of Seward. The ship will remain in the Seward port to be disinfected, the statement said. A new, skeleton crew that has been quarantining in Anchorage will go onboard after it is disinfected.
The new cases are a sharp spike in the Aleutian island community of roughly 4,500 residents. There have now been 97 COVID-19 cases confirmed in Unalaska, although all but one of the cases were found in nonresidents, many tied to the seafood industry. Unalaska operates one of the country’s busiest seafood ports.
Of the 85 Unalaska cases, thirty-six were reported in time to be included in the state’s daily total Sunday. The remaining cases will be reported Monday. Alaska saw a record number of COVID-19 cases reported Sunday, with 119 new infections.
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