A call for crew joining boats in NZ waters to come through managed isolation and return a negative Covid-19 test before heading out to sea. At the moment, health and border authorities are dealing with multiple Covid-19 cases across three vessels. Two of them had fresh crew fly into New Zealand to join the boats. The crews do not have to go into MIQ on arrival, they are tested for the virus but can join their boat before the results are back. In the case of the Viking Bay, the two new crew were already on the ship before their positive results came back and the virus spread rapidly. Captain Iain Macleod is vice president of the Merchant Service Guild, and happens to be in MIQ. He tells Lisa Owen what the problem is.