China News Service, April 17 (Xinhua) According to foreign media reports, on the 17th local time, the French military said that 940 sailors' new crown virus had been tested positive on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

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 the soldiers on the aircraft carrier standing on the deck with masks.

  The French military said on the 15th that there were 668 people diagnosed with New Coronary Pneumonia on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, 31 of whom were sent to hospital for treatment, and one was treated in the intensive care unit.

  According to French media reports, there are approximately 2,300 people on board the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The aircraft carrier set sail for the eastern Mediterranean on January 21 to support France ’s military operations against extremists in Iraq and Syria before moving on 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.

  At present, the French military has ordered an investigation into the outbreak of the Charles de Gaulle.