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The Republican National Convention inFlorida and Jacksonville, will feature daily coronavirus testing for all those attending case, which is to be centered on President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination with a 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for that host committee in the Jacksonville part of the convention, said in the emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention inside the perimeter will likely be tested and temperature checked on a daily basis."

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

A party official said the GOP will probably be installing a lot of what sort of testing as well as 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.

The news happens the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday rrt had been "too early to tell" whether Florida will be a safety for that convention the following month as a result of boost in Covid-19 cases within the state.

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

Florida, currently the 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.

Hawaii faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that could come to a head throughout the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday found that health authorities in the state often fail to do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an episode.

Yesterday, the town of jacksonville declared it might be requiring individuals to wear face masks in public and indoor locations and where social distancing is not possible -- something obama has consistently refused to complete in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in a statement that, with the event a little less than 2 months away, the party "is committed to holding a safe and secure convention that fully matches local health regulations set up at the time."

"We are planning to offer health precautions including and not limited by temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We have a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville as well as the condition of Florida, and we'll carry on and coordinate with these within the months ahead."

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

"We're planning to test everybody," she said in the interview on Fox News the other day. "We're planning 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. 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, by way of example, the major commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take around 4-6 days to the general population.

The convention will likely be split between Jacksonville and Charlotte, Nc, inside a departure from past conventions, fueled partly by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement how the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came after a weeks-long battle between Democratic Vermont Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team had been working to maintain the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to allow the caution of nutritionists stop Republicans from having 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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