A Pentagon spokesperson told Newsweek that 144 have already recovered.
More than 2,000 military personnel have been infected with the coronavirus, with the number of confirmed cases more than doubling in the past week.on Wednesday morning that there are 1,975 confirmed cases of the coronavirus within the military's ranks, while 144 individuals have recovered. As of now, 61 service members are hospitalized because of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
In response to the pandemic, the Pentagon has quarantined thousands of troops, placed limits on domestic and international travel, shuttered recruiting centers and canceled many war-training exercises. The Army is also requiring all troops that return from abroad to quarantine for two weeks.Kena Betancur/Getty
Army Chief of Staff General James McConville said during a Tuesday virtual town hall that the military hopes to begin testing soldiers to see if they've already contracted the virus and recovered without showing symptoms. "Over the next couple months, we're going to be in a much more robust position to do more testing, which is going to help us manage the force better under these conditions," McConville said, according to"We may have had soldiers that already had it and had no symptoms, and we won't know," the general explained."So there's testing that's coming out—not here yet—but it will show whether you've actually had the virus.
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