The French nuclear aircraft carrier, on board which 50 sailors tested positive for the coronavirus, docked in Toulon on Sunday afternoon, said the maritime prefecture of the Mediterranean. Its occupants must be distributed in sites in the South of France for two weeks of isolation.

The French nuclear aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle, whose sailors must be disembarked and placed in medical isolation after cases of coronavirus on board, docked Sunday afternoon in Toulon, we learned from the prefecture maritime of the Mediterranean.

The start of a period of isolation

Fifty soldiers have tested positive for coronavirus on board, leading to the vessel's early return to France. Some 1,900 sailors from Charles-de-Gaulle and the frigate that accompanied him will be dispatched from Sunday to sites in the South of France, for two weeks of isolation.