Thursday, April 9, 2020

French Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle Heads Back To Port Over Fears That 40 Sailors Have Contracted The Covid-19 Coronavirus

The French Navy flagship carrier is equipped with a medical unit on board complete with a resuscitation unit. All 40 sailors with suspected Covid-19 are being kept in solitary confinement

Daily Mail: Coronavirus alert on French Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle amid fears 40 sailors have the bug after NATO training exercise with allies including a British warship

* Sailors with suspected cases of Covid-19 are being kept in solitary confinement
* The aircraft carrier had taken part in training exercises off the Denmark coast
* It is now returning back to its home port of Toulon as quickly as possible

The flagship of the French Navy is at the centre of a coronavirus emergency - following a training exercise with NATO allies including a British frigate.

The nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, one of the largest warships in the world, is thought to have at least 40 cases of the virus among its force of around 2,000.

It was steaming back to its home port of Toulon, in the south of France, on Wednesday morning as a screening team prepared to board.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Charles De Gaulle, if he were alive, would not approve and he would be right.

Granted he was a prickly, pugnacious, hotheaded dick, but he was had a good grasp of armored warfare and was France's leading theoretician on the subject.