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

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

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

A party official said the GOP will be laying out numerous how a 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.

This news happens the heels of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it's "too early to tell" whether Florida might be a safe home for your convention later because of a improvement in Covid-19 cases from the state.

"I think it's to soon to share with," Hahn, affiliated with the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State from the Union." "We'll have to observe how this unfolds in Florida and around 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.

Hawaii faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that may come to a head during the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday found that health authorities in the state often fail to do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an outbreak.

The other day, the town of jacksonville asserted it could be requiring people to wear face masks in public places and indoor locations and where social distancing is not possible -- something obama has consistently refused to perform in public areas.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said in the statement that, together with the event less than 60 days away, the party "is devoted to holding a safe and secure convention that fully matches local health regulations in position during the time."

"We are intending to offer health precautions including although not limited by temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We possess a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville along with the state of Florida, and we'll still coordinate using them in the months ahead."

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

"We're going to test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News a week ago. "We're going 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, by way of example, the most important commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take about 4-6 days for that general population.

The convention is going to be split between Charlotte and Jacksonville, New york, inside a departure from past conventions, fueled to some extent by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement that the President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came following a weeks-long battle between Democratic Vermont Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team was trying to maintain your convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to permit the caution of nutritionists stop Republicans from developing 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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