America plans to take down 3 thousand sailors from an aircraft carrier, due to the outbreak of Corona virus

On Wednesday, US Navy commanders announced that about 3,000 sailors will be disembarked from the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the coming days, after the carrier's commander sent a letter requesting help to end the Corona virus outbreak on board .

This comes after a message from the aircraft carrier captain Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Brett Cruiser, was leaked to the media, warning that he would have dire consequences if most sailors were not evacuated from the ship, according to the American newspaper The Hill .

"We are not at war," said Cruiser's letter. "Sailors should not die. If we do not act now, we will fail to take care of them ."

In this regard, Acting US Secretary of State Thomas Mudley said that, as of today, the results of corona virus detection have shown the infection of 93 sailors on board (Theodore Roosevelt), and symptoms of infection have appeared on 86 of them, and the rest are asymptomatic .

He added that only about 24% of the crew members of the carrier were tested, and the result of 593 negative tests, and Modley pointed out that nearly 1,000 of the 4,800 sailors had already been landed, after the carrier was docked in the Pacific island of Guam, continuing that The Navy expects 2,700 people to disembark from the ship in the next two days .

He pointed out the need for about 1,000 sailors to remain on the aircraft carrier to carry out basic functions such as operating the nuclear reactor that powers the ship, saying: "We will not download all the sailors from the ship ."

While Cruiser's letter stated that only 10% of the crew would need to stay on board the ship, Moodley said he did not believe the aircraft carrier could operate with only 10% of its crew .

"We need these sailors to be safe and healthy, and we need the ship to be operational, so we are doing our best ," Moodley added , and   in a related context, officials on Guam Island said that sailors who tested positive for HIV would be isolated in hotels. The island .