REPORT: Coronavirus infects US aircraft carrier after port call in Vietnam, sailors sickened

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SAILORS ON USS ROOSEVELT SICKENED: The Navy revealed yesterday that three sailors had to be evacuated from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and other crew members isolated aboard ship after the three tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

The Roosevelt, now at sea in the Pacific Ocean, made a port call in Da Nang, Vietnam, late last month and early this month, but Navy officials could not say if that was the source of the infection.

The article goes on to state the following:

“I think it would be difficult to tie down these active cases to that particular port visit,” said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday at a Pentagon news conference. “We’ve had aircraft flying to and from the ship, and so we just don’t want to say it was that particular port visit; although we took great precautions when the crew came back from that shore period to do enhanced medical screening of the crew.”

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