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The Republican National Convention inJacksonville and Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for all those attending case, which is aimed at President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination at a 15,000-person arena.

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

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

A celebration official said the GOP will likely be installing a lot of the way the testing and also 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.

Good news happens the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it's "too early to tell" whether Florida is a safety for that convention next week due to a improvement in Covid-19 cases inside the state.

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

Florida, the actual 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 may visit a head in the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities within the state often fail to do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an outbreak.

Yesterday, the city of Jacksonville asserted it could be requiring visitors to wear markers in public areas 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 in a statement that, with the event less than 2 months away, the party "is committed to holding a safe convention that fully matches local health regulations in place at that time."

"We are preparing to offer health precautions including although not tied to temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We possess a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville along with the state of Florida, and we will continue to coordinate using them in the months ahead."

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

"We're gonna test everybody," she said in an interview on Fox News a week ago. "We're planning to have temperature checks, we'll 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 most important commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take around 3 to 4 days to the general population.

The convention will likely be split between Charlotte and Jacksonville, New york, 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 Vermont Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team was fitting in with keep your convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused permit the caution of nutritionists stop Republicans from having 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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Monday, July 6, 2020

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