The French Navy (Marine Nationale)'s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier received a number of health safety improvements this summer in order to make it more resilient to the COVID-19 epidemic, French minister of the armed forces said on Sunday. Hundreds of crewmembers tested positive back in April.
98% of the sailors aboard French Navy (Marine Nationale) aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (and its strike group) are now cured.
Tests carried out at the beginning of the week revealed that 668 French sailors (nearly one third of aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle crew) have tested positive to COVID-19. 31 service members are hospitalized and one is in intensive care. 30% of the test results are still pending.
Following the announcement of a number of suspected Covid-19 cases among aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle's crew, a medical team was sent on board. The tests it carried out confirm fifty positive cases of Covid-19 on board.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) aircraft carrier and flag ship Charles de Gaulle is heading home early following suspicion of several Covid-19 cases among its crew members.
North Sea, Denmark - French carrier strike group and its flagship, the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, trained with the Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) for four days last week.
The Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) participated in cross-deck inter-operability exercises in the Mediterranean Sea March 3.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) began dual-carrier flight operations with French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) in the Mediterranean Sea March 2.
The Danish government on Feb. 20 received the support of the Foreign Policy Board to deploy the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) HDMS Niels Juel (F363) frigate into the French Carrier Strike Group (Task Force 473).
On the night of February 8, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) joined the French Navy (Marine Nationale) Carrier Strike Group, also known as Task Force 473, currently deployed as part of the "Foch" mission.
