Threat COVID-19: French aircraft carrier heading home

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France's only aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, is heading home due to fears that about 40 sailors on board might become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus. This happened against the backdrop of a massive disease of sailors on the American pennant of a similar class Theodore Roosevelt and the appearance of infection on the Nimitz aircraft carrier of the US Navy.

At Charles de Gaulle there are approximately 2 thousand people. Since January of this year, he carried out combat missions at sea, his planned return was expected on April 20.



On board the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which is currently deployed in the Atlantic as part of the Foch mission, about forty sailors [...] exhibit symptoms consistent with a possible COVID-19 infection

- explains the Ministry of Defense.

The French military sent a group of doctors with specialized equipment to the ship, which should begin a check of the crew.

Persons with coronavirus symptoms were placed in isolation. The ship has a hospital for a dozen patients, a medical team of 20 people works, which includes doctors, including surgeons, and nurses. Other sailors clean the common areas twice a day. There were limits on the number of crew members gathering at the same time in certain places.
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  1. +7
    April 9 2020 07: 17
    They are there in the sea, what is blowing with the wind? recourse
    1. +11
      April 9 2020 07: 23
      They call at the ports, receive food, carry out a crew shift as necessary, conduct joint exercises, and that's it.
      1. +11
        April 9 2020 07: 48
        And they would have sat on their native coast ... and then they are wandering back and forth ... wink
        They catch every infection ....
        1. +6
          April 9 2020 07: 55
          On the American aircraft carrier, the virus was detected in flight crews, and it just conducts a constant rotation.
          1. +2
            April 9 2020 08: 27
            Charles de Gaulle heading home for fears that about 40 sailors on board might become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus

            They bring the problem home.
            Two missiles meet - Soviet (SR) and American (AR)
            AR: Where are you going?
            SR: To you! And where are you going?
            AR: To you!
            SR: Well, if you met, then it must be noted!
            Noted ...
            We talked. We drank more ...
            AR: Well, I flew on, the task must be completed ...
            SR: And for the road ?!
            AR: Okay, come on!
            We drank ...
            AR: Something is not good for me ... I’d better return home
            SR: I spend !!!
            smile
        2. +4
          April 9 2020 07: 57
          Quote: Mouse
          And they would have sat on their native coast ... and then they are wandering back and forth ... wink
          They catch every infection ....

          Laughing (sort of) ashamed. But ... laugh out loud ... laughing lol
          1. +1
            April 9 2020 08: 20
            The public is wondering if there are women in the crew of the French aircraft carrier?
            1. +5
              April 9 2020 08: 27
              Quote: Ilya-spb
              The public is wondering if there are women in the crew of the French aircraft carrier?

              A very young French woman timidly enters the perfume shop.
              Asks the saleswoman to recommend good perfumes.
              The luxurious girl behind the counter begins to show an assortment:
              - This is "Hugs" ... This is "Secrets of the Night" ... And this is "Ecstasy" ...
              - Tell me, is there anything for beginners? )))
            2. +1
              April 9 2020 09: 18
              Quote: Ilya-spb
              The public is wondering if there are women in the crew of the French aircraft carrier?

              No Vineric Epidemic Reported lol
              1. +1
                April 9 2020 09: 37
                Quote: Lipchanin
                No Vineric Epidemic Reported

                So the French runny nose is! Symptom of ARVI laughing Those. COVID
                1. +2
                  April 9 2020 09: 41
                  Quote: Cowbra
                  So the French runny nose is! Symptom of ARVI i.e. COVID

                  Actually, they could have classified data lol
                  1. 0
                    April 9 2020 09: 47
                    "A clipper is sailing on the river, a skipper is on the clipper, and a skipper is a gripper"? One Pierre, two Pierre ... Ah, I remember! Three Pierre!
                    1. 0
                      April 9 2020 10: 21
                      Gyyyyyy laughing
                      Did not hear laughing
          2. +3
            April 9 2020 09: 17
            Quote: primaala
            Laugh (kinda) ashamed

            "It's not a sin to laugh right, at what seems funny"
            Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826):
        3. +2
          April 9 2020 08: 38
          "De Gaulle" full of phlegm,
          the French brought to Toulon.
          The Chinese are unlikely to infect
          But the US-sheep could!
    2. +1
      April 10 2020 11: 06
      Again, thank God, on this French trough. Really, not a happy ship.
  2. +1
    April 9 2020 07: 36
    “Tell the president to clear orders.” His aircraft carrier returns home, which is spirit ...
  3. -2
    April 9 2020 07: 41
    And These are the descendants of the soldiers of Napoleon !!! Fuuu
  4. +1
    April 9 2020 07: 43
    Another "Flying Dutchman", following the American one.
    Mannered French sailors were scared of the virus. Measure the temperature, stick out the tongue in the infirmary ...
    But once this nation kept in fear the whole of Europe ... wink
    1. -1
      April 9 2020 11: 01
      Our return from the Mediterranean Sea two frigates. Also scared?
  5. 0
    April 9 2020 07: 48
    And so, and another aircraft carrier, the nats will put on the bank. Take it with your bare hands. bully
  6. +1
    April 9 2020 07: 54
    Buy an aircraft carrier, not expensive.
    1. 0
      April 9 2020 14: 39
      Buy an aircraft carrier, not expensive.

      Why immediately an aircraft carrier? Start small. wink
  7. +2
    April 9 2020 08: 18
    - "Lamour perdu" in French, in translation it sounds "love passes" ...
    - Damn, something beautiful ...
    1. -1
      April 9 2020 08: 30
      And then there were some sailors, pah)))
  8. +2
    April 9 2020 08: 25
    This happened against the backdrop of a massive disease of sailors on the American pennant of a similar class Theodore Roosevelt and the appearance of infection on the Nimitz aircraft carrier of the US Navy.
    The wording "in the background" is not entirely clear. American sailors got sick and the French got sick against their background? Or did the "NATO brothers" visit the same brothels along the way?
    1. 0
      April 9 2020 09: 14
      One in the Atlantic, the second in the Pacific :)
      Oh, these brothels, hanging around, no matter where smile
    2. 0
      April 9 2020 17: 13
      The Americans used the French aircraft carrier as a brothel, and like that "in the background" everyone got sick.
  9. +1
    April 9 2020 08: 47
    It turns out that the "thunderstorm of aircraft carriers" is a coronavirus.
    1. +1
      April 9 2020 08: 50
      And we scared about their Tu 22, with missiles, or else, just a virus
  10. +1
    April 9 2020 09: 13
    On the flight deck of an aircraft carrier there is a lot of space for a campground. To infect all infectious, let the wind blow the ocean into the ocean. And there is no need to rush home, take a longer swim in warm latitudes.
  11. +2
    April 9 2020 09: 31
    Even in such a low-quality picture it’s clear that the bucket is full of holes! Oil slick the size of a ship’s floor. Where are these European environmental standards and famous European quality ??
    1. -2
      April 9 2020 11: 08
      I am glad to present you a Russian aircraft carrier that has no tax in the world - "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov", which meets all world environmental standards laughing
      1. -1
        April 9 2020 11: 14
        Quote: Freemason
        I am glad to present you a Russian aircraft carrier that has no tax in the world - "Admiral of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov", which meets all international environmental standards laughing

        How did the Russian aircraft carrier, "Admiral of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov", which has no tax in the world, appear in this photo? Where did you see it here?
        1. 0
          April 9 2020 11: 21
          No way, naturally. I wrote my comment on the fact that it’s stupid to laugh at some small (or not very small) problems in the fleets of other countries, if we have a situation with this at least not better hi
          1. -1
            April 9 2020 11: 29
            Quote: Freemason
            we have a situation with this at least no better

            Honestly, a strange comparison initially. Did France have a period of perestroika and a decade of economic decline, a refusal to finance the armed forces and the navy? And given that Kuznetsov is 10 years older than the Frenchman, the comparison is clearly not in favor of the Frenchman.
      2. -1
        April 9 2020 15: 57
        Quote: Freemason
        meets all international environmental standards

        Are there any environmental standards for warships? Where can I read the text?
        1. 0
          April 9 2020 16: 31
          So it’s not me, but the comrade above began to write about the inconsistency of Charles De Gaulle with European environmental standards
  12. -2
    April 9 2020 10: 10
    Other sailors clean the common areas twice a day.
    Everything is as it should be, everyone to scrub the latrines. laughing Maybe they are there from the virus, they also managed.
  13. 0
    April 9 2020 12: 17
    France is not enough of this infection and death, so it will also bring its own "free-bearer".
  14. +1
    April 9 2020 13: 52
    I. Repin "French sailors are learning the song" Dembel in May ", the old name" of the picture "Sailed".
  15. -1
    April 9 2020 15: 55
    France's only aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, is heading home due to fears that about 40 sailors on board might become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus

    but other sources report as a fait accompli:
    According to French media, the French Navy’s only carrier aircraft R 91 Charles De Gaulle was sent to its base in Toulon on a campaign in the Atlantic Ocean after the discovery of the coronavirus COVID-19 in about 40 members of its crew (numbering 1760 people, including the number of air wing and group personnel management of 560 people). The Ministry of Armed Forces of France announced the recall of the ship to the base on April 8.