USNS Mercy takes on its first non-coronavirus patients

A patient comes aboard the USNS Mercy on Sunday.( Photo courtesy of US Navy)

A patient is brought aboard the USNS Mercy on Sunday, March 29.( Photo courtesy of US Navy)

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Sailors transport a patient to be admitted aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy on March 29.( U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan M. Breeden)

The hospital ship USNS Mercy offset its method from San Diego and docked at the cruise liner terminal at the Port of Los Angeles Friday morning March 27, 2020. By Saturday afternoon police had be closed down the entering to the cruise ship terminal as too many beings were traveling to catch a judgment of the hospital ship.( Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

The US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy arrives in the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro on Friday, March 27, 2020. The ship has 1,000 berths and will be use to treat non-coronavirus cases free-spoken up hospital berths in the fight against the pandemic.( Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/ SCNG)

The US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy arrives in the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro on Friday, March 27, 2020. The carry has 1,000 beds and will be use to treat non-coronavirus patients freeing up hospital bunks in the fight against the pandemic.( Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/ SCNG)

The US Navy ship Mercy arrives in the port of Los Angeles Friday, March 27, 2020. The ship will not take on patients with coronavirus but will make other cases so hospitals will have more gap for COVID-1 9 patients.( Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/ SCNG)

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy( T-AH 19) navigates the San Diego channel. Mercy deployed in support of the nation’s COVID-1 9 response endeavors, and will serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-1 9 patients currently admitted to shore-based infirmaries. This allows shore base hospitals to focus their efforts on COVID-1 9 actions.( U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lasheba James/ Released)

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks at a press conference in front of the USNS Mercy, docked at the Port of Los Angeles, on Friday, March 27. Photo: Via Gov. Newsom’s Twitter

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The first three patients arrived Sunday on the USNS Mercy, a Navy hospital ship at the Port of Los Angeles sent by the Department of Defense to free up neighbourhood hospices that are taking in coronavirus patients.

Information on what ailments the three cases suffers from or what municipals they came from was not available. These patients do not have coronavirus.

They were transported on board with help from Camp Pendleton Marines presently providing security to the ship.

The massive, 894 -foot vessel arrived at the port on Friday, March 27, as hospices in the area deal with an increasing number of coronavirus disputes. The ship is docked at the sail terminal, near Harbor Boulevard and Swinford Street — just south of the Vincent Thomas Bridge.

” I couldn’t be more proud of our gang for all the hard work they did to get us now and ready in such a short period of time ,” Capt. John Rotruck, Mercy’s Military Treatment Facility commanding officer said in a statement on Sunday, March 29.” Being able to accept our first cases is a genuine evidence of the teamwork between Mercy, the Navy, the State of California, the province of Los Angeles, and the city and Port of L.A .”

On Sunday, Los Angeles officials reported five more coronavirus extinctions, producing the total number to 37. There are 2,100 supported cases.

Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in Los Angeles, prompted the public to adhere to social distancing.

“I ask that everyone please do your fraction to not infect others or become infected yourself ,” she said.

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