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France, as the corona virus spread in an aircraft carrier floating in the sea, half of the entire crew was caught in corona. This is the second largest group infection in the aircraft carrier after the United States.

This is reporter Kim Kyung-hee.

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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle returned to the base after halting NATO combined operations on the 12th.

This is because some crew members had suspected corona19 symptoms.

So far, 2,200 of the 2,300 crew members have been tested, of which 1,81 have been tested positive.

[Eric Labo / French Navy spokesman: More than 20 people are being hospitalized at the Saint-Ten Military Hospital in Toulon, one of which is critical.]Suspected patients came from the beginning of this month, when the carrier went to the port of Brest, France, on the 13th and 15th of last month, and passed the two-week incubation period even though there was no external contact.

[Florence Parley / French Defense Minister: As of March 13, it is unknown whether the virus was present in the carrier prior to the anchorage on March 13. It should be revealed through epidemiological investigations.]

Earlier in the US carrier Roosevelt, about 600 people were infected with Corona 19, and one of them died.

It is argued that it is difficult to avoid the risk of group infection in the future due to the nature of the boat, which is almost impossible to keep social distance.

[John Hyton / Deputy Chief of Staff: It is wrong to think that this will never happen again. You have to worry about how to operate the operation in the corona era.] In

particular, after the Roosevelt withdrawal from China in the South China Sea withdrew, China will conduct large-scale maritime drills, and it seems that changes in strategic asset management plans in the corona era and the United States are inevitable. .

(Video editing: Cho Moo-Hwan)