The German research ship Polarstern will temporarily have to disrupt it’s mission due to the Corona virus situation.
She will attempt to free herself from the ice and proceed to Longyearbyen for crew change and stores:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01253-4
I’ve been following the MOSAiC expedition since the beginning with great interest. I still can’t believe they made it almost to the North Pole with Kapitan Dranitsyn, a medium-sized icebreaker with less than one third of the power of those massive Arktika-class behemoths, during that mid-winter resupply mission…