Both US aircraft carriers in the Pacific are taken out of action for up to a MONTH after sailors get infected with coronavirus - giving China an almost free hand in the region as Pentagon raises threat level to second highest setting USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Ronald Reagan are the only two US aircraft carriers in the Pacific; both have sailors who have tested positive to COVID-19 The diagnoses have prompted USS Theodore Roosevelt to port in Guam, where it could be held for at least a month USS Ronald Reagan is currently in port in Tokyo, Japan, and it is unclear whether all of its crew will now be quarantined China now appears to have a free hand in the Pacific - alarming news given heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington The two superpowers have traded barbs over the origins of COVID-19, and China accused the US of 'playing a dangerous game' by sailing a destroyer near Taiwan https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8161181/Sailors-aircraft-carriers-Pacific-coronavius.html
