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The Republican National Convention inFlorida and Jacksonville, will feature daily coronavirus testing for anyone attending the big event, that is dedicated to President Mr . trump accepting the Republican nomination with a 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for that host committee from the Jacksonville area of the convention, said within an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention from the perimeter will be tested and temperature checked every day."

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

An event official said the GOP will be planning more info on how a testing along with 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 occurs the heels of Drug and Food Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it's "too early to tell" whether Florida will be a safety for your convention the following month because of surge in Covid-19 cases within 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 from the Union." "We'll ought to observe how this unfolds in Florida and round the country."

Florida, 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.

Their state faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that can come to a head in the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday found out that health authorities inside the state often are not able to do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an outbreak.

A week ago, the town of jacksonville asserted it would be requiring website visitors to wear goggles in public places and indoor locations where social distancing isn't feasible -- something obama has consistently refused to accomplish in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said within 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 intending to offer health precautions including however, not limited by 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 and also the state of Florida, and we'll continue to coordinate with them in the months ahead."

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

"We're gonna test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News yesterday. "We're likely to have temperature checks, we're going to 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.

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, for instance, the main 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, 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 following a weeks-long battle between Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team have been attempting to maintain the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused permit the caution of health officials 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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