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June 25 (Reuters) \u2013 The Belgian port of Antwerp has quarantined a Maltese-flagged oil tanker until at least July 4 after more than half of its crew tested positive for COVID-19, the port authority said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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The Minerva Oceania was being held at the port\u2019s Leopold dock after 15 of its 26-person crew had returned positive tests, a port spokeswoman said in an emailed response.<\/p>\n
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Two of the crew members who tested positive were in hospital but their condition was not serious, she said.<\/p>\n
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The other crew were remaining on board and those with COVID-19 self-isolating in separate cabins.<\/p>\n
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The spokeswoman did not say when the ship had arrived in Antwerp or where it had come from.<\/p>\n
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Ship tracking website MarineTraffic said the oil products tanker had arrived in Antwerp on June 19 after a month-long journey from Ras Laffan in Qatar.<\/p>\n
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The port, where some 60,000 people work, said it would review the situation with Flemish health authorities on July 4.<\/p>\n
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Belgian media previously reported that another ship had been quarantined at the port in April, after an outbreak of the virus among its crew.<\/p>\n
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Belgium\u2019s Zeebrugge port also held an Italian cruise ship for a few hours in March, when two of the more than 3,000 people on board were quarantined after contact with an infected person in Germany. (Reporting by Kate Abnett; Editing by Philip Blenkinsop and Andrew Cawthorne)<\/p>\n
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