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Anti-virus controls strand merchant sailors aboard ships

by Joe McDONALD
| December 24, 2020 12:03 AM

BEIJING (AP) — The crew of the U.S.-owned Horizon Spirit expect to spend Christmas looking after their 800-foot (240-meter) long container ship in a southern Chinese shipyard, barred, like thousands of sailors worldwide, from going ashore due to coronavirus restrictions.

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