{"id":19119,"date":"2020-03-17T21:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/03\/17\/two-more-sailors-on-board-warships-have-the-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:02:04","slug":"two-more-sailors-on-board-warships-have-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/03\/17\/two-more-sailors-on-board-warships-have-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more sailors on board warships have the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sailors assigned to warships homeported in San Diego and Everett, Washington, tested positive for the new strain of coronovirus, bringing to three the number of known cases tied to Navy surface vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the two newest cases, one sailor is assigned to the littoral combat ship Coronado at Naval Base San Diego and the other reports to the guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronado is tied up and undergoing routine maintenance and Ralph Johnson also is in port and not at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentagon officials said the destroyer\u2019s crew is busy disinfecting the warship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Given this case, Ralph Johnson is conducting extensive cleaning to mitigate further spread to the crew,\u201d read a prepared statement from the Pentagon emailed to Navy Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Navy leaders shuttered a school house<\/a> on Naval Base San Diego after a cluster of coronavirus cases emerged over the weekend linked to an instructor, a student from Naval Base Point Loma and another student off the amphibious warship Boxer<\/a>, the Coronado patient is not believed to be tied to that outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It remains unclear how he contracted the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\t