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

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for that host committee from the Jacksonville part of the convention, said in a emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention inside the perimeter will probably be tested and temperature checked on a daily basis."

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

A celebration official said the GOP will likely be planning a lot of how the 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.

The news occurs the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it had become "too early to tell" whether Florida is a safe place for the convention later because of improvement in Covid-19 cases in the state.

"I think it's too early to see," Hahn, part of the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State from the Union." "We'll ought to 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 faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that could arrived at a head during the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday learned that health authorities within the state often don't do contact tracing, long considered a key tool in containing an outbreak.

The other day, the town of jacksonville declared that it will be requiring individuals to wear goggles in public and indoor locations and where social distancing isn't likely -- something obama has consistently refused to accomplish in public places.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said inside a statement that, with the event a little less than 2 months away, the party "is focused on holding a secure convention that fully matches local health regulations in place at the time."

"We are intending to offer health precautions including and 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 and also the state of Florida, and we will carry on and coordinate with these from the months ahead."

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

"We're likely to test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News a week ago. "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.

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 typically four to six days to the general population.

The convention will likely be split between Jacksonville and Charlotte, Nc, in 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 Nc Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team was trying to maintain your convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to allow the caution of nutritionists stop Republicans from creating 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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