The captain of the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt told the Pentagon that Covid-19 is spreading uncontrollably through his ship and called for immediate help to quarantine its huge crew, two US newspapers reported.
Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a four-page letter that they had not been able to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus through the 4,000 crew members, describing a dire situation aboard the huge vessel now docked at Guam. "We are not at war.
Sailors do not need to die," Mr Crozier wrote, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating," Mr Crozier wrote, referring to the ship's "inherent limitations of space." The United States now has more than 165,000 confirmed coronavirus
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