A Kiwi survey ship is sitting at Port Taranaki “burning cash” waiting on its crew's 14 days isolation to be up, despite the 18 seafarers on board already returning two negative Covid-19 tests this month.
A Taranaki survey ship's crew who returned negative Covid-19 tests before spending 19 days alone at sea have been ordered to isolate offshore until the end of the month.
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Emails show there were fears crew members could die and a humanitarian crisis unfold on deep-sea fishing vessels with Covid on board which had contact with the region's port.