Another employee at Leroy Seafood's salmon processing factory in Norway's Hitra municipality has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

The person in question has not been at work since Feb.18 and is now isolated, Leroy Seafood spokesman Krister Hoaas told IntraFish.

All close contacts, a total of seven people, are also now in quarantine, he added.

Just before Christmas, Leroy Midt temporarily shut its plant in Hitra after several of the workers tested positive for COVID-19.