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2020-04-16 Europe

Coronavirus: 668 infected on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

[BBC] A third of the sailors on France's aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle - 668 out of nearly 2,000 - are infected with coronavirus, the navy says.

The ship returned to the French port of Toulon early from Atlantic exercises. Twenty sailors are in hospital, one of them in intensive care.

The figure for those infected is likely to rise, as 30% of the test results are not yet in. The navy is investigating how so many sailors caught the virus.

The aircraft carrier is now in quarantine. Last week it was brought home 10 days early from its Atlantic deployment after some sailors showed symptoms.

Posted by 3dc 2020-04-16 06:57|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I wish they'd stop saying "infected" and start saying "tested positive".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-16 07:48|| 2020-04-16 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Now, now, we wouldn't want the hysteria to subside now, would we?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-16 08:43|| 2020-04-16 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 You mean the carrier isn't filled with zombies?

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-04-16 08:46|| 2020-04-16 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 The ship returned to the French port of Toulon early from Atlantic exercises.

So the French did what they do best - surrender!

Posted by Raj 2020-04-16 08:50|| 2020-04-16 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 You mean the carrier isn't filled with zombies?

Well they are French.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-16 09:03|| 2020-04-16 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Now there's a carrier captain with guts. Unlike Captain Coward of the US Navy who violated OPSEC and informed far too many people with the predictable result it leaked. Fuck him.

Posted by Spike Grineng8188 2020-04-16 11:47|| 2020-04-16 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Navy May Reinstate Fired Captain of USS Theodore Roosevelt

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-16 12:02|| 2020-04-16 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 I don't whether he's a coward or not, but he's sure as Hell living proof that horse's asses out number horse by at least 10 to 1.

Posted by Cesare 2020-04-16 12:35|| 2020-04-16 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Must be all that "hot-bunking"... The French will be French....

Posted by Fat Bob Grumble5961 2020-04-16 15:22|| 2020-04-16 15:22|| Front Page Top

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