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

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman to the host committee with the Jacksonville part of the convention, said in an emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention inside the perimeter will be tested and temperature checked every day."

When reached by CNN on Monday night, Isaac repeated that attendees would be tested for Covid-19 and not get a more simple health screening.

A party official said the GOP is going to be planning more information on how the 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.

The news happens the heels of Drug and Food Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it had become "too early to tell" whether Florida would have been a rut to the convention the following month due to a boost in Covid-19 cases within the state.

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

Florida, now 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.

The state of hawaii faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that can arrived at a head during the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities in the state often are not able to do contact tracing, long considered a vital tool in containing an episode.

The other day, the town of jacksonville asserted it might be requiring individuals to wear hides in public and indoor locations where social distancing is not possible -- something the President has consistently refused to do in public areas.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said inside a statement that, using the event rather less than 2 months away, the party "is dedicated to holding a safe and secure convention that fully complies with local health regulations in position at the time."

"We are planning to offer health precautions including however, not restricted to temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We use a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville as well as the state of Florida, and we'll continue to coordinate with them inside 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 a week ago. "We're gonna 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, for instance, the most important commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take an average of 4-6 days for your general population.

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

The announcement that the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came after a weeks-long battle between Democratic Vermont Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team have been fitting in with maintain your convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to permit the caution of physicians stop Republicans from using a fully attended convention.

Because the party signed a contract to hold the convention in Charlotte, it is obligated to hold some portion of the gathering in the North Carolina city. 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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