A US Navy warship has halted its deployment to South America as a result of coronavirus outbreak, the Navy stated on Friday.
USS Milwaukee, a littoral fight ship, is staying in port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, the place it halted for a scheduled port go to.
It started its deployment on 14 December from Mayport, Florida and was shifting to the US Southern Command space.
The Navy stated in an announcement that the ship’s crew is “100 percent immune” and those that have examined constructive for COVID-19 have been remoted on the ship, away from different crew members.
The variety of crew who examined constructive was not disclosed. The ship has a crew of a bit of over 100.
The Navy stated that “a portion” of these contaminated have delicate signs, and that the particular sort will not be but recognized. COVID-19 instances have elevated throughout the nation because of the extremely contagious Omicron variant.
“The ship is following an aggressive mitigation strategy in accordance with Navy and CDC guidelines,” the Navy stated.
The first main navy outbreak of the virus occurred early final yr on a naval warship, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an plane service working within the Pacific.
Roosevelt was sidelined in Guam for almost two months, and greater than 1,000 of the 4,800 crew members examined constructive. One sailor died, and the whole crew went by means of weeks of quarantine in a row that stored sufficient sailors on the ship to maintain them secure and on.
According to the most recent information launched by the Navy, greater than 98 p.c of all lively responsibility sailors have been absolutely vaccinated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
