A total of 940 sailors tested positive for Covid-19 on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and the aeronautical group that accompanies it, out of a total of 2,300 people, said Friday the central director of the Health Service armies (SSA). According to Dr. Marilyne Gygax Généro, central director of the SSA, who testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces, all the crew members were tested. 940 are positive, 645 negative, the others are not yet known.
The previous figure reported 668 positive cases. "We are and will be transparent," said the director, quoted in a statement from the commission. “The contamination of the aircraft carrier is an absolutely major event (…). There will undoubtedly be consequences to be drawn at the end of this crisis, be it the medical specialties of the SSA, or the equipment.
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