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The Republican National Convention inJacksonville and Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for the people attending the event, which will be dedicated to President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination at the 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for your host committee from the Jacksonville part of the convention, said in the emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention from the perimeter will be tested and temperature checked each day."

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

A party official said the GOP will probably be installing more info on what sort of testing and other health protocols will act 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 that it was "too early to tell" whether Florida would have been a safety for your convention next week due to a surge in Covid-19 cases from the state.

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

Florida, now 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.

Their state faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that could arrive at a head in the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities from the state often are not able to do contact tracing, long considered an integral tool in containing an outbreak.

A week ago, the town of jacksonville declared that it might be requiring visitors to wear markers in public areas and indoor locations and where social distancing isn't likely -- something obama has consistently refused to accomplish in public areas.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said inside a statement that, together with the event rather less than two months away, the party "is committed to holding a secure convention that fully matches local health regulations in position back then."

"We are preparing 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 as well as the state of Florida, and we will continue to coordinate with these inside the months ahead."

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has previously pledged which everybody attending the convention would be tested.

"We're planning to test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News a week ago. "We're going to have temperature checks, we are going to 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.

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, for instance, the major commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take an average of 4-6 days to the general population.

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

The announcement how the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came after a weeks-long battle between Democratic Nc Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team ended up attempting to maintain the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to allow the caution of physicians stop Republicans from developing 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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