Wednesday, April 29, 2020

COVID-19 hit Second US Navy ship returns to port

A US destroyer hit by many coronavirus cases cruised into San Diego Tuesday for cleaning, making it the second Navy warship briefly put down and out by the pandemic.

With 63 percent of the 300-in number group tried as of Tuesday, 64 mariners on board the USS Kidd were discovered positive for COVID-19, the Navy said.
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Two had been restoratively cleared to the US terrain a week ago, and 15 others were in this manner moved to another vessel with better clinical offices — the USS Makin Island — for observing "because of tireless indications," it said.

The principal cases surfaced a week ago while the Kidd had been watching for tranquilize dealers in the Caribbean.

Clinical work force were immediately traveled to the boat to lead tests, and it was requested back to port in the southern California city, where the group will be emptied and isolated while the boat experiences a "key profound cleaning routine."

The principal vessel struck by an episode of the illness, the atomic plane carrying warship USS Theodore Roosevelt, stays at dock in Guam following one month while 4,800 group are dealt with and the monstrous boat is disinfected.

The entirety of the team has been tried and 969 discovered positive for the coronavirus. One mariner kicked the bucket.

Generally speaking, the US Department of Defense says that in excess of 6,640 military and regular citizen work force and relatives have tried positive for coronavirus, with 27 passings.


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