Italy plans large-scale quarantine in response to coronavirus outbreak

[UltraVid id=14 ]the US Navy sailor in Naples Italy has tested positive for coronavirus marking the first confirmed case among servicemembers stationed in Europe this is the virus continues to spread rapidly worldwide Lucas Tomlinson is live in Washington with more on that Lucas John Italy is preparing to lock down large parts of the country Europe’s most drastic action yet to stop the spread of coronavirus our colleagues The Wall Street Journal first reported the draft decree which would take effect tomorrow if approved more than 10 million people around Milan would be affected police and even the army would enforce the quarantine Italy has nearly six thousand coronavirus cases more than 230 people have died there the biggest outbreak outside Asia the u.s. Navy sailor tested positive in Naples about five hundred miles away from Milan Friday the US military announced its first confirmed case at the headquarters for US forces in Korea after a South Korean employee tested positive on the base this is the seventh coronavirus case confirmed by the US military in Korea but so far only one active duty American soldier out of 28,500 space there have been infected back home defense secretary Mark espera says he’s fully confident the Pentagon could withstand the virus we have a lot of capabilities in this building our you know our National Military Command Center has the capability to go for weeks at a time if they have to be locked down inside the building if we if we have some type of outbreak despite the rising threat from coronavirus US Navy warships continue their missions around the world after leaving Guam the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt pulled into Vietnam earlier this week but warships must now spend at least 14 days at sea following port calls to quarantine the crew earlier this week on Capitol Hill the Navy’s top Admirals who asked this key question do you have test kits no we don’t we don’t yet but that’s not just a problem for DoD but I think that I think that we’re getting you a better place in terms of the production to allow us to be able to distribute those out to the out to the force at the Pentagon the head of infectious disease at Walter Reed Medical Center said there’s no need to panic I think people should should recognize at the end of the day this still remains on low risk infection to not just our service members but to the American public John there are now just two confirmed Crono virus cases in the US military out of 1.3 million men and women in the active duty forces John worth remembering Lucas Tomlinson thank you