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

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman to the host committee of the Jacksonville element of the convention, said within an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention inside the perimeter will probably be tested and temperature checked on a daily basis."

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

A party official said the GOP will probably be planning numerous what sort of testing along with other health protocols will work 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 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 would have been a safety for your convention next month as a result of surge in Covid-19 cases from the state.

"I think it's too soon to inform," Hahn, part of the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State with the Union." "We'll must observe how this unfolds in Florida and round the country."

Florida, currently the 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 faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that may come to a head through the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities within the state often neglect to do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an episode.

A week ago, the town of jacksonville said that it could be requiring website visitors to wear hides in public and indoor locations where social distancing isn't feasible -- something obama has consistently refused to perform in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said within a statement that, together with the event a little less than 60 days away, the party "is dedicated 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 but not tied to temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We have a very great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville along with the state of Florida, and we will continue to coordinate with them from the months ahead."

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

"We're gonna test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News a week ago. "We're planning to have temperature checks, we will 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 most important commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take around 4-6 days for your general population.

The convention is going to be split between Jacksonville and Charlotte, New york, in the departure from past conventions, fueled simply by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement that the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came after having a weeks-long battle between Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team ended up attempting to keep your convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused permit the caution of health officials 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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