Two crew members are in intensive care in a French hospital after an outbreak of Covid-19 on a State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (Socar) tanker.

The 14,400-dwt FMT Bergama (built 2009) has been in quarantine since 8 May after 12 seafarers tested positive at Port-la-Nouvelle.

The vessel had arrived from Terneuzen in the Netherlands, having left on 28 April.