In an effort to keep a 'COVID-free bubble' for its sailors at sea during the pandemic, the Navy will only allow ports of call at a select number of Navy bases around the world that will serve as 'safe havens.'
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.As the USS Theodore Roosevelt left Guam on Thursday to resume a deployment interrupted for more than two months by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, it headed out to sea enforcing health and safety practices that will now become standard for the foreseeable future on U.S. Navy ships.
Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Sheila Ferreira, from New Bedford, Mass., mans the rails as the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt departs Naval Base Guam, June 4, 2020, following an extended visit to Guam in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic.Now, before Navy ships head out on a deployment, crews are tested and quarantined so that no one will bring the virus aboard a ship.
Sawyer said that for now, the Naval base at Guam will be a"COVID-free bubble" for ships in the Pacific region so they can make a port of call and plans are in the works for the same at a base in the Middle East and another in the Mediterranean."We've got a couple of locations that we've identified that we're doing the same on, so that we can pull in and get R&R for the crew, a chance to relax a little bit, get some burgers, swim in the water.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt departs Apra Harbor in Guam, June 4, 2020, following an extended visit in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic."Areas under our control, the ability to create safe havens, certainly is the first step," said Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, the Navy's Surgeon General."How we do that in cooperation with our host and partner nations I think, will then follow.
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