mo4ch:>Mysterious Covid-19 outbreak forces US Navy to quarantine 116 crew on HOSPITAL ship treating a handful of non-coronavirus patients | Mo4ch News

The US Navy has removed over 100 sailors from a hospital ship docked in Los Angeles to aid the city’s fight against Covid-19 after seven crew members contracted the lethal virus – but exactly how remains a mystery.The 116 medical staff members were pulled off the USNS Mercy on Tuesday and brought to a nearby base where they entered quarantine, Lieutenant Rochelle Rieger of the 3rd Fleet told the Associated Press, adding that none have been hospitalized.More puzzling, however, is how – and where – the seven infected sailors could have picked up the virus, given that the Mercy’s entire crew of more than 1,000 was tested and cleared before the ship set off for Los Angeles in late March. Since then, none of the sailors have been allowed to leave the vessel.“The only people going on and off the ship are the actual patients we've been treating so it's very hard to trace where this came from,” Rieger said.Also on rt.comUS sailor from corona-stricken aircraft carrier 'Theodore Roo…