On this picture from video, offered by the California Nationwide Guard, a helicopter carrying airmen with the 129th Rescue Wing flies over the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California Thursday, March 5, 2020.
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Vice President Mike Pence stated Friday that 21 individuals aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship moored off the coast of California have examined optimistic for COVID-19.
The ship shall be dropped at a non-commercial port, Pence stated, and everybody aboard the ship shall be examined. He didn't say which port the ship will go towards or when it's anticipated to reach.
Of the 21 individuals who examined optimistic, he added, 19 are crew members and two are passengers. Pence stated well being officers examined solely 46 individuals aboard the ship.
"We're instituting the strongest testing protocols to make sure that not solely these on board obtain the remedy that they want, however that the American individuals may be assured there shall be no erosion in our preventative efforts to maintain...
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