PARIS, April 15 (Reuters)– Nearly 700 seafarers designated to the French warship Charles de Gaulle’s marine team have actually checked favorable for the coronavirus, the militaries ministry claimed on Wednesday.

The ministry claimed 1,767 seafarers, almost all from the Charles de Gaulle itself, had actually been checked as well as results revealed at the very least 668 to be contaminated with the brand-new coronavirus. Results are still not in from a 3rd of the examinations.

“Thirty one personnel are today in hospital,” it claimed in a declaration. “More tests are being carried out.”

The provider, which had actually most just recently been participating in workouts with north European navies in the Baltic Sea, got back in Toulon 2 weeks earlier than anticipated after regarding 40 staff participants revealed indications of COVID-19 signs.

Sick staff participants had actually been positioned under rigorous clinical monitoring aboard the nuclear-powered provider as well as a group geared up to perform the very first examinations airlifted to the vessel.

Crew from the Charles de Gaulle as well as the frigate Chevalier Paul were currently in arrest within their marine base, while the pilots of the provider’s warplanes as well as helicopters were additionally in quarantine.

The navy principal had actually gotten an examination, the ministry claimed.

The Charles de Gaulle set out for the eastern Mediterranean onJan 21 to sustain French armed forces procedures versus Islamist militants in Iraq as well as Syria, prior to releasing to the Atlantic and after that theBaltic (Reporting by John Irish, Richard Lough; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

( c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.