{"id":41440,"date":"2020-06-10T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/10\/kidd-resumes-deployment-after-covid-19-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:41:19","slug":"kidd-resumes-deployment-after-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/06\/10\/kidd-resumes-deployment-after-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidd resumes deployment after COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you a sailor whose ship or unit has had a COVID-19 outbreak? Email <\/b><\/i>geoffz@militarytimes.com<\/b><\/i><\/a> and tell us about it.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a six-week detour due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the ranks, the guided-missile destroyer Kidd<\/a> left San Diego and resumed its scheduled deployment Monday, according to a Navy statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But exactly how many sailors were infected, and how many may have been left on land, remains unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy and the rest of the U.S. Defense Department have refused to identify the number of outbreaks or the local units where they are happening, and Navy officials declined to specify Kidd case numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the Navy stopped updating cases aboard the Kidd and the stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt <\/a>on April 30, there were 78 \u201cactive cases\u201d in the Kidd crew, nearly a quarter of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer\u2019s ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warship will now resume its deployment as part of counter narcotics operations in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\t