The U.S. Navy Times reported on 30 October that U.S. officials confirmed this week that a number of crew members aboard the aircraft carrier Ford had been infected with the neoconavirus.
According to the report, according to Pentagon regulations, the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Air Forces Command spokeswoman Jennifer Cragg refused to disclose the specific number of infected people on the aircraft carrier “Ford”, she wrote in an email, “only a few crew members” in recent weeks were diagnosed with the new coronavirus infection.
Cragg did not specify when the crew members tested positive for the virus, but she said on Thursday that the positive results were “more than a week ago”.
According to the report, someone had also told the Navy Times about the outbreak of neonatal pneumonia on the USS Ford and said there were about 2,700 crew members on the aircraft carrier. The source said: “The crew was removed from the carrier and quarantined. In addition, tracking of the close contacts was completed quickly and the close contacts were also immediately quarantined.” “(The carrier’s) operations were not affected.”
According to an earlier U.S. military release, the crew of the USS Ford conducted joint in-port training with the crew of the USS Stennis this week, focusing on practicing the integration of personnel from both carriers in the event of a casualty situation.
Spokesman Cragg added that the USS Ford follows all U.S. Department of Defense and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance policies. “In addition. The USS Ford carrier crew is actively exercising and minimizing partying, while wearing personal protective equipment and conducting extensive cleaning and disinfection.”
According to the report, the outbreak aboard the USS Ford highlights the challenges the U.S. Navy faces in keeping its ships safe from the virus. While the U.S. Navy has operational restrictions and quarantines in place, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gildee noted last month that more than 190 U.S. Navy ships have experienced outbreaks of various forms of neoconavirus this year. This spring, deployed in the Indo-Pacific region of the U.S. Navy “Roosevelt” on the aircraft carrier outbreak, resulting in the aircraft carrier “nesting” nearly two months, thousands of crew members were infected, and there was one death.
According to the latest statistics, as of 28 October, a total of 12,074 troops in the United States Navy have been detected infected with the new coronavirus.
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