3 Sailors Aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt Test Positive, First Deployed Cases

Source: NBC San Diego Originally published on: 24/03/2020 Three U.S. Navy sailors on San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19 and will be flown off the aircraft carrier, the Navy said Tuesday.

"These are our first three cases of COVID-19 on a ship that is deployed," Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said.

The quarantined sailors will be flown off the ship, which is currently in the Asia-Pacific region, and those who had contact with the sailors were being quarantined, according to Modly. Full article here