{"id":11149,"date":"2020-02-27T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/02\/27\/pacific-fleet-orders-at-least-14-day-underways-for-ships-visiting-nations-in-7th-fleet-aor-as-coronavirus-spreads\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:07:30","slug":"pacific-fleet-orders-at-least-14-day-underways-for-ships-visiting-nations-in-7th-fleet-aor-as-coronavirus-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/02\/27\/pacific-fleet-orders-at-least-14-day-underways-for-ships-visiting-nations-in-7th-fleet-aor-as-coronavirus-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Fleet orders at least 14-day underways for ships visiting nations in 7th Fleet AOR as coronavirus spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. John C. \u201cLung\u201d Aquilino has directed all vessels visiting nations in the 7th Fleet area of operations \u201cto remain at sea for at least 14 days before pulling into another port in order to monitor sailors for any symptoms&#8221; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/26\/military-stepping-up-coronavirus-prevention-efforts-for-us-troops-in-thailand-during-multinational-cobra-gold-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19<\/a>, a new and deadly strain of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aquilino\u2019s unclassified Wednesday order is part of a larger Navy effort to control the spread of a disease that emerged in China\u2019s Wuhan City last year and now has been detected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/summary.html\" target=_blank>in 37 locations internationally<\/a>, including cases in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/26\/first-us-service-member-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-south-korea\/\">soldier stationed in South Korea<\/a> became the first service member to test positive for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/21\/first-batch-of-evacuees-leave-lackland-after-coronavirus-quarantine\/\">virus<\/a> but Navy officials insist no personnel in the sea service have shown signs of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/26\/military-stepping-up-coronavirus-prevention-efforts-for-us-troops-in-thailand-during-multinational-cobra-gold-exercise\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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better protect the force while also safeguarding allies, partners and friends of the United States from potential infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based in Japan, the 7th Fleet is the largest of the Navy\u2019s numbered fleets, with up to 80 warships and submarines operating within an area of responsibility that extends from the International Dateline to the borders of India and Pakistan and south to Antarctica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That adds up to 36 maritime nations that contain more than half of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nations in the 7th Fleet AOR that have recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/01\/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html\" target=_blank>COVID-19 cases<\/a> include Japan, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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arrival of evacuated Malaysians from China&#8217;s Wuhan, the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (Muzzafar Kasim\/Malaysia&#8217;s Ministry of Health via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commands assigned to the 7th Fleet annually engage in more than 100 bilateral and multilateral exercises and ships schedule more than 200 port calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday\u2019s directive applies only to afloat units. It takes into account the vast distances across the Pacific and Indian oceans vessels must travel, which should make the 14-day underway order easy to enforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crews and embarked Marines likely to be affected by the new order include the 7th Fleet flagship Blue Ridge, the amphibious assault ship America and the dock landing ship Green Bay, which recently arrived in Thailand to participate in Exercise Cobra Gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/03\/14\/us-warship-sails-the-arabian-sea-avoiding-port-killing-time-and-germs\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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