Six seafarers from Sri Lanka are ill, having fever, on board of container vessel CMA CGM Ural, according to Maritime Bulletin. As the boxship earlier in January called the ports of Shenzhen, Xiamen, Ningbo-Zhousan and Yangshan in China, there are fears that seamen may be affected from coronavirus.
Update: CMA CGM downplays fever reports on ship
CMA CGM vessel is presently steaming in Gulf of Aden, en route from China to Suez and then Mediterranean / Black sea ports, via Singapore, Maritime Bulletin says.
Merchant Shipping Association of Sri Lanka was alerted on a mass crew illness in the morning of 27 January 2020, according to the report.
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