China News Service, April 16 (Xinhua) According to foreign media reports, a French Navy spokesman said on the 16th that after the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle broke out a new coronary pneumonia outbreak, there are still about 20 sailors hospitalized.
On April 12, local time, the French navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle returned to the French military port of Toulon the same day. The picture shows a woman looking at the aircraft carrier arriving at the harbor.
French Navy spokesman Eric Lavault said: "There are about 20 sailors still in the hospital, one of them is in the intensive care unit and is in stable condition."
The French Ministry of Defense said on the 15th that a total of 1,767 naval soldiers were tested, almost all from the "Charles de Gaulle", and at least 668 people showed positive reactions.
De Gaulle sailed to the eastern Mediterranean on January 21 to support France ’s military operations against extremists in Iraq and Syria, and then to the Atlantic and Baltic Seas.
Afterwards, "Charles de Gaulle" participated in the drills of the Nordic Navy in the Baltic Sea, but returned to the port of Toulon, France, two weeks before the sailors showed new symptoms of pneumonitis.
The French military has ordered an investigation into the outbreak of the Charles de Gaulle.