50 confirmed COVID-19 cases aboard the French Aircraft carrier

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France Reports 50 COVID-19 Cases Aboard Aircraft Carrier
April 10, 2020, at 6:55 a.m.
PARIS (REUTERS) - FIFTY crew members aboard France's sole aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, have tested positive for the new coronavirus and parts of the ship have been put in lockdown, the armed forces ministry said on Friday.

A ministry statement said that three sailors had been evacuated by air to a military hospital in Toulon, southern France, home port of the carrier.
A team equipped to carry out tests for coronavirus infection boarded the vessel on Wednesday just after the armed forces ministry had reported signs of COVID-19 symptoms among 40 crew members.

"The results of 66 tests showed 50 cases of COVID-19 aboard the Charles de Gaulle. There is no deterioration of the sailors' medical condition at this stage," the ministry said, adding that the evacuation of three of those sailors occurred Thursday.

The aircraft carrier, which is equipped with its own intensive care facilities, has 1,760 personnel on board.

The nuclear-powered carrier, which had most recently been taking part in exercises with northern European navies in the Baltic Sea, is continuing its journey to Toulon, where it is due to dock in the coming days.

"While awaiting the early return of the aircraft carrier in Toulon ... extra measures aimed at protecting the crew and containing the spread of the virus have been put in place," the ministry added, adding that all crew members must now wear face masks.

Last week the captain of U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt was relieved of his command after the leak of a scathing letter he sent to superiors to call for stronger measures to curb a coronavirus outbreak on his vessel.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Mark Heinrich and David Goodman)

Copyright 2020 Thomson Reuters.
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[Pakistan Space Agency]

Why do I get this feeling this Coronavirus may have been spreading around the world much earlier than November / December 2020 period when it was first discovered?

It may have been mutating for months and months (or years) and we all are (i.e. the whole planet) may be infected with different levels of its mutating severity.

 

[riscol]

This just add another supporting fact to what i said earlier which the virus was created in Fort Detrick.

 

[Bilal9]

This just add another supporting fact to what i said earlier which the virus was created in Fort Detrick.

Well the Chinese are certainly blaming the US military - and the US lodged a strong protest with the Chinese Govt.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ittle-known-u-s-intel-outfit-has-its-n1157296

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1182694.shtml

 

[riscol]

Closure of the bio lab at Fort Detrick in 2019 is no accident, it happened for a reason.

 

[Beast]

Why do I get this feeling this Coronavirus may have been spreading around the world much earlier than November / December 2020 period when it was first discovered?

It may have been mutating for months and months (or years) and we all are (i.e. the whole planet) may be infected with different levels of its mutating severity.

They reconstructed the early evolutionary paths of Covid-19 as infection spread from Wuhan, China, out to Europe and North America. By analysing the first 160 complete virus genomes to be sequenced from human patients, scientists found the variant closest to that discovered in bats was largely found in patients from the US and Australia, not Wuhan.


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