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The Republican National Convention inJacksonville and Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for all those attending the big event, that is centered on President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination at a 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for the host committee with the Jacksonville area of the convention, said within an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention within the perimeter is going to be tested and temperature checked daily."

When reached by CNN on Monday night, Isaac repeated that attendees can be tested for Covid-19 and not simply get a easier health screening.

A celebration official said the GOP will be laying out more info on how the testing along with other health protocols will act as the convention gets closer.

The schedule is unclear for the Jacksonville portion of the convention, but if Republicans stick to the itinerary they previously planned, Trump will give his acceptance speech there at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on August 27, the last day of the convention.

Good news comes on the heels of Drug and Food Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday that it was "too early to tell" whether Florida will be a safe place to the convention later because of a boost in Covid-19 cases in the state.

"I think it's prematurily . to share with," Hahn, a member of the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "We'll have to see how this unfolds in Florida and around the country."

Florida, the actual nation's No. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 1 hot spot for the virus, set a record on Saturday for the most new coronavirus cases in a single day for any state during the pandemic, with a total of 11,458.

The state of hawaii faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that could come to a head in the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities from the state often don't do contact tracing, long considered an integral tool in containing an outbreak.

The other day, the town of jacksonville declared it could be requiring website visitors to wear face masks in public areas and indoor locations and where social distancing isn't likely -- something obama has consistently refused to accomplish in public areas.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in the statement that, with all the event a little less than 60 days away, the party "is devoted to holding a safe convention that fully matches local health regulations in place during the time."

"We want to offer health precautions including however, not limited by temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We use a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville along with the condition of Florida, and we will continue to coordinate using them from the months ahead."

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has previously pledged that everybody attending the convention could be tested.

"We're likely to test everybody," she said within an interview on Fox News yesterday. "We're going to have temperature checks, we are going to sanitize."

Isaac declined to answer questions on Monday as to what types or brands of tests would be administered. Alternatively, whether attendees would be separated while waiting for test results.

Lab-based PCR tests may take a few hours to run -- and days to return results due to a surge in demand, even though some rapid tests can deliver results in less than 15 minutes. On Monday, as an example, the main commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take about 3 to 4 days to the general population.

The convention will likely be split between Charlotte and Jacksonville, New york, in the departure from past conventions, fueled to some extent by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement that this President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came from a weeks-long battle between Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team ended up attempting to maintain the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to allow the caution of nutritionists stop Republicans from using a fully attended convention.

Because the party signed a contract to hold the convention in Charlotte, it is obligated to hold some portion of the gathering in the North Carolina city. So in a Republican convention unlike any other in modern history, delegates will officially elect their nominee in one location, while the nominee accepts the nomination hundreds of miles away.

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Tuesday, 7 July 2020

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