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The Republican National Convention inJacksonville and Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for the people attending the big event, that is aimed at President Mr . trump accepting the Republican nomination with a 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for the host committee from the Jacksonville area of the convention, said within an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention inside 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 and not just get a more simple health screening.

A party official said the GOP will be installing more info on how the testing as well as 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.

The news comes on the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it's "too early to tell" whether Florida is a rut for that convention later because of a surge in Covid-19 cases from the state.

"I think it's too soon to tell," Hahn, part of the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State with the Union." "We'll must observe how this unfolds in Florida and around 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 can come to a head during the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday discovered that health authorities within the state often are not able to do contact tracing, long considered a vital tool in containing an episode.

The other day, the city of Jacksonville declared that it might be requiring people to wear hides in public and indoor locations and where social distancing isn't feasible -- something the President has consistently refused to do in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in the statement that, using the event less than 60 days away, the party "is devoted to holding a secure convention that fully complies with local health regulations in position back then."

"We want to offer health precautions including and not restricted to temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We have a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville and the condition of Florida, and we will continue to coordinate using them from the months ahead."

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

"We're going to test everybody," she said in an interview on Fox News last week. "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, 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, by way of example, the main commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take typically 4 to 6 days to the general population.

The convention will likely be split between Jacksonville and Charlotte, Nc, inside a departure from past conventions, fueled to some extent by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came from a weeks-long battle between Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team ended up trying to keep the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to permit the caution of physicians 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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