Two sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19 while the ship was conducting training off the coast of California and have been taken off the ship to self isolate, a U.S. Navy spokesman says.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Two sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19 while the ship was conducting training off the coast of California and have been taken off the ship to self isolate, a U.S. Navy spokesman said Friday.
Harrell said contact tracing has been completed and all crew members who came in contact with the two sailors who tested positive are quarantining aboard the ship.Seaman Cameron Davis mans the helm of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt as the ship operates in the Philippine Sea, May 21, 2020, following an extended visit to Guam in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The carrier is currently off the coast of San Diego conducting a short period of training and is expected to return to port as scheduled in coming days. Capt. Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, gives remarks during an all-hands call on the ship's flight deck, Dec. 15, 2019.
Because the Roosevelt is conducting short training cycles from San Diego the ship's crew is not experiencing the two week restriction before heading out to sea. But there daily procedures in place including temperature checks and modified work routines, and as they would during a deployment the entire's ship crew is wearing masks.
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