NEW: 416 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt—nearly 10% of the ship's crew—have now tested positive for COVID-19, and the numbers are rising daily.
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.
“We’ve tested almost the whole crew now, we still have about 1,000 tests left to report out,” said Hyten. “A U.S. Navy Sailor assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the U.S. Naval Hospital Guam April 9,” said a Navy statement. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits Apra Harbor as the ship prepares to moor in Guam. Theodore Roosevelt Is in Guam for a port visit during their scheduled deployment to the Indo-Pacific.The Navy plans to take 2,700 of the ship’s crew to place them in appropriate quarantine housing. The pace and the placement of the majority of the ship’s crew was the main request in Crozier’s letter that led to his firing by former acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly.
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