WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters)– Three UNITED STATE seafarers aboard the Theodore Roosevelt carrier in the Pacific evaluated favorable for the coronavirus, UNITED STATE Navy authorities claimed on Tuesday, the initial recognized situations of the infection aboard a UNITED STATE army ship mixed-up.

Acting UNITED STATE Navy Secretary Thomas Modly informed a press conference that the 3 had actually been quarantined as well as were being flown off the ship. The ship has around 5,000 workers aboard.

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday claimed the ship was last in port in Vietnam regarding 15 days earlier.

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