The Pentagon announced that Minister Mark Esber and his deputy were placed in quarantine today, Monday, after confirming that 37 of the ministry's staff were infected with the new corona virus.
The ministry indicated that 18 of the people infected with the virus are military, amid fears of the spread of the virus among the US military.
The Ministry of Defense announced that its laboratories had conducted 495 analyzes of the Corona virus in the past 24 hours.
For his part, US President Donald Trump said - Monday - that the United States will emerge stronger after the outbreak of the outbreak of the Corona virus, in light of the increasing number of people infected with the disease in the country.
"Everyone is united and working hard, which is a beautiful thing we see ... They love our great country, and we will end up with us stronger than ever," Trump said in a tweet on Twitter.
Trump has come under fire for lack of tests to detect the Corona virus,
And reduce the seriousness of the virus in the first days of its spread.
The US administration has pledged to reinforce disease detection tests.
At least 65 people died as a result of the emerging corona disease in the United States, and about 3,500 confirmed cases of the virus were recorded, according to CNN statistics in various US states.
Earlier, CNN reported that the White House was considering imposing a curfew in the United States to prevent the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.