On the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle 50 sailors contracted the coronavirus

Moscow. April 10. INTERFAX.RU — On Board the aircraft carrier “Charles de Gaulle” French Navy for 50 sailors probably contracted the coronavirus, confirmed the Ministry of the French armed forces. It is reported by the Figaro.

the Three crew members taken off the Board and “for reasons of precaution” were taken by air to Toulon, although as yet none of the diseased condition nor came to severe.

About the first forty identified infected sailors, the Ministry announced on Wednesday, April 8. Then it became known that the carrier ahead of time will complete the mission and has popped up in the port.

at First it was the manifestation of the symptoms of this viral disease, however, then the six sailors were tested, and 50 of 1760 was confirmed to be infected.

Earlier it became known about the outbreak of coronavirus aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier “Theodore Roosevelt” U.S. Navy. The extra ship went to the base on the island of GUAM in the Pacific ocean, nearly half the team’s total population of 4800 people went ashore to the quarantine. On April 9, according to CNN, the infection was confirmed in 416 sailors.