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The Republican National Convention inJacksonville and Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for all those attending the wedding, that is devoted to President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination at the 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for the host committee from the Jacksonville area of the convention, said in an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention within the perimeter is going to be tested and temperature checked daily."

When reached by CNN on Monday night, Isaac repeated that attendees would be tested for Covid-19 rather than just receive a simpler health screening.

A party official said the GOP will probably be installation of more info on how the 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.

This news turns on the heels of Drug and Food Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday that it was "too early to tell" whether Florida is a safety for the convention later due to a surge in Covid-19 cases from the state.

"I think it's too early to share with," Hahn, associated with the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State with the Union." "We'll need 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.

The state faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that may come to a head throughout the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities in the state often don't do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an outbreak.

Yesterday, the city of Jacksonville declared that it might be requiring individuals to wear goggles in public and indoor locations and where social distancing isn't likely -- something obama has consistently refused to perform in public places.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in a statement that, with the event less than 2 months away, the party "is committed to holding a safe and secure convention that fully complies with local health regulations available back then."

"We are planning to offer health precautions including however, 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 condition of Florida, and we will continue to coordinate with them in the months ahead."

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

"We're gonna test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News last week. "We're gonna have temperature checks, we'll 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, by way of example, the main commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take about four to six days for the general population.

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

The announcement the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came after a weeks-long battle between Democratic Nc Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team had been fitting in with maintain the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to let the caution of nutritionists stop Republicans from using a fully attended convention.

It is obligated to hold some portion of the gathering in the North Carolina city, because the party signed a contract to hold the convention in Charlotte. 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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