The U.S. Department of Defense is freezing overseas deployments and troop movements amid the COVID–19 pandemic.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper signed an order freezing the movement of U.S. military personnel worldwide for 60 days. Navy announced that three sailors on board USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class supercarrier, had tested positive for COVID–19 and were being airlifted off the ship. «In those cases, those sailors are running a temperature and they have some body aches, but we wouldn’t necessarily characterize them as requiring hospitalization,» he said.
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