USS Roosevelt will port and test all 5,000 sailors for coronavirus

The Navy reported Thursday that five more sailors aboard the carrier USS Roosevelt in the Pacific Ocean tested positive for the coronavirus and were scheduled to be flown off the carrier as it makes its way to Guam to port and complete testing of all 5,000 crew members.

“We found several more cases on board the ship,” acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said at a Pentagon press briefing Thursday morning. “We are in the process now of testing 100% of the crew of that ship to ensure that we are able to contain whatever spread might have occurred there on the ship.”