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The Republican National Convention inFlorida and Jacksonville, will feature daily coronavirus testing for those attending the event, that is dedicated to President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination at the 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for that host committee with the Jacksonville part of the convention, said in an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention within the perimeter will likely be tested and temperature checked each day."

When reached by CNN on Monday night, Isaac repeated that attendees will be tested for Covid-19 and not just receive a more standard health screening.

A celebration official said the GOP will be installation of more information on how the testing as well as other health protocols will work as the convention gets closer.

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, although the schedule is unclear for the Jacksonville portion of the convention.

This news happens the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it had become "too early to tell" whether Florida is a safe place for your convention next week because of a boost in Covid-19 cases in the state.

"I think it's too soon to see," Hahn, affiliated with the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State in the Union." "We'll ought to find out how this unfolds in Florida and around the country."

Florida, the actual nation's No. 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, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Their state faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that could arrive at a head through the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday found out that health authorities inside the state often don't do contact tracing, long considered an integral tool in containing an episode.

The other day, the town of jacksonville asserted it could be requiring people to wear markers in public areas and indoor locations where social distancing is not possible -- something the President has consistently refused to accomplish in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in the statement that, with all the event a little less than two months away, the party "is devoted to holding a safe and secure convention that fully complies with local health regulations in position at that time."

"We want to offer health precautions including however, not restricted to 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 as well as the condition of Florida, and we'll still coordinate using them inside the months ahead."

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has previously pledged that everyone attending the convention would be tested.

"We're likely to test everybody," she said in an interview on Fox News the other day. "We're going to have temperature checks, we're going to sanitize."

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

Some rapid tests can deliver results in less than 15 minutes, but lab-based PCR tests may take a few hours to run -- and days to return results due to a surge in demand. On Monday, for instance, the most important commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take about 4-6 days for your general population.

The convention will be split between Jacksonville and Charlotte, North Carolina, in the departure from past conventions, fueled in part by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement how the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came after having a weeks-long battle between Democratic Vermont Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team was trying to maintain the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused permit the caution of health officials stop Republicans from creating 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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Monday, July 6, 2020

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