SAN DIEGO _ Three sailors on the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for COVID-19, Thomas Modly, the acting secretary of the Navy, announced Tuesday at a Pentagon press briefing.
The affected sailors were flown off the ship and taken to a Defense Department hospital, said Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations.
The ship left San Diego in January and is deployed to the western Pacific. On March 5, the ship made a port call in Da Nang, Vietnam, a place with known COVID-19 cases.
Gilday said that, at the time, the number of cases in the city was low. He also said the Navy is not certain the sailors contracted the virus in Vietnam.
