Politics Both US aircraft carriers in the Pacific are taken out of action for up to a MONTH

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Both US aircraft carriers in the Pacific are taken out of action for up to a MONTH after sailors get infected with coronavirus - giving China an almost free hand in the region as Pentagon raises threat level to second highest setting

• USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Ronald Reagan are the only two US aircraft carriers in the Pacific; both have sailors who have tested positive to COVID-19
• The diagnoses have prompted USS Theodore Roosevelt to port in Guam, where it could be held for at least a month
• USS Ronald Reagan is currently in port in Tokyo, Japan, and it is unclear whether all of its crew will now be quarantined
• China now appears to have a free hand in the Pacific - alarming news given heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington
• The two superpowers have traded barbs over the origins of COVID-19, and China accused the US of 'playing a dangerous game' by sailing a destroyer near Taiwan

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8161181/Sailors-aircraft-carriers-Pacific-coronavius.html

 

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