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

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for your host committee with the Jacksonville area of the convention, said within 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 can be tested for Covid-19 and not simply be given a more simple health screening.

A party official said the GOP is going to be laying out a lot of what sort of testing and also other health protocols will act as the convention gets closer.

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, although the schedule is unclear for the Jacksonville portion of the convention.

The news happens the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday rrt had been "too early to tell" whether Florida would have been a rut for the convention next week as a result of boost in Covid-19 cases in the state.

"I think it's too early to tell," Hahn, affiliated with the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State from the Union." "We'll need to discover how this unfolds in Florida and round the country."

Florida, currently 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.

Hawaii faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that may visit a head during the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday found that health authorities in the state often don't do contact tracing, long considered an integral tool in containing an outbreak.

The other day, the city of Jacksonville declared that it will be requiring website visitors to wear markers in public and indoor locations and where social distancing is not possible -- something obama has consistently refused to perform in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in a statement that, with all the event rather less than 8 weeks away, the party "is focused on holding a safe convention that fully matches local health regulations in position during the time."

"We are preparing to offer health precautions including although not limited by 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 condition of Florida, and we'll always coordinate with these within the months ahead."

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

"We're planning to test everybody," she said in the interview on Fox News a week ago. "We're going 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. 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 key commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take an average of 4-6 days for that general population.

The convention will probably be split between Jacksonville and Charlotte, Vermont, 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 after a weeks-long battle between Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team was fitting in with keep the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to permit the caution of health officials stop Republicans from having 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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