As of March 30, 2020, the number of US soldiers infected with the new Corona virus on board the giant USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, 8 sailors, according to the official recognition of the US Navy, while the American network ABC speaks about 36 cases. Quoted from a military official, who declined to be identified.
We are not talking here about a cruise ship with 200 passengers and the countries of the world refuse to receive it, but rather one of the largest pieces that humans have built with a length of 332 meters, carrying 3,200 naval soldiers and 2480 pilot soldiers.
And most of all, it was until a few days that it moved from one port to another in the Gulf, where its personnel dock and exit to participate in many activities in the allied countries hosting joint programs.
Just a few days ago, the US Navy decided to amend the carrier’s agenda and route to head to Guam Island, the strategic location of US forces, with the aim of conducting checks for its crew.
The reported cases of injuries among soldiers do not include an unspecified number of quarantined people on board the carrier, knowing that sterilization on a ship of this size is complex. More importantly, stopping the spread of the virus requires that it be completely evacuated, with only 800 devices available for corona testing in the carrier’s medical team.
But the most important for the countries that docked is determining the people who communicated with its crew, as well as determining the case “zero”, a measure that is almost impossible due to the secrecy surrounding the medical examinations that seafarers will be subjected to, according to the protocol in force in the US Navy.
According to the USS Roosevelt carrier, it headed to the common area between the Indian and Pacific stations on January 17, 2020, on a mission that was supposed to last 7 months, first dressed in the port of Da Nang in Vietnam, where New cases of corona virus infection are currently being discovered (in the port itself and the town in which it is located), knowing that Vietnam was completely empty, and for 22 days, from any local infection, until multiple infections appeared through British tourists in the same town where they docked. USS Roosevelt ”for two weeks.
The “mystery” of the spread of the epidemic on the carrier in light of the great American discretion cannot be answered, especially since the number of injuries may rise dramatically due to the ventilation mechanism on the carrier and the narrow living spaces designated for the sailors, with an excess in the number of surfaces, such as stairs, door handles and narrow paths Between the rooms and the presence of shared bathrooms, note that the sailors spend a large part of their time examining all parts of the carrier, in order to ensure their availability throughout.
The Americans insist on talking about the appearance of corona symptoms among soldiers 15 days after visiting Vietnam, while the poor country, Southeast Asia, did not witness any case of corona before the visit of the American aircraft carrier, so did the virus pass to “USS Roosevelt” from a crew An American soldier visited from another ship?
This is the most likely answer, especially since time did not help the carrier to move to other ports, and the only friction he experienced was her sailors, who was in the high ocean during joint exercises with other American parts.
Source: Al-Mayadeen
