China News Service, October 29. According to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) report, US federal officials stated on October 28 that the deputy commander of the US Space Force David Thompson tested positive for the new crown virus.
Currently, he has self-isolated and will work remotely from home.
According to reports, the U.S. Air Force announced that David D. Thompson, the deputy commander in charge of space operations, received the new crown after learning that he had been in contact with a family member who was diagnosed with the new crown virus. Virus detection.
The U.S. Air Force said in a statement: "According to the established COVID-19 prevention policy, General Thompson has conducted self-isolation and is working remotely from home."
David Thompson is not the first Department of Defense official to be diagnosed with the new crown virus.
On October 3, the U.S. Department of Defense stated that as the Deputy Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard, Charles Ray, tested positive for the new crown virus, several senior U.S. military officials who had been in contact with him recently began self-isolation on the 6th.
According to real-time statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, at around 8:24 on the 29th, Beijing time, the total number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States exceeded 8.85 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 220,000.