26 U.S. Navy warships have registered COVID-19 cases, according to a CNN report on Wednesday quoting a senior Navy official.

Another 14 have also recorded cases of the disease, but the crew members impacted recovered successfully.

The Navy official said the ships with current cases are in port or maintenance yards.

As of Wednesday morning, 3,578 US service members had tested positive for the virus, including two deaths. Nearly 800 of those cases have come from the outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier where one sailor also died.

More than 4,000 sailors on the Roosevelt had been moved ashore and were scheduled to begin returning to the ship this coming weekend after finishing a 14-day isolation period but that process has been paused because 120 previously asymptomatic sailors tested positive.

As a result, the Navy has decided to keep all personnel already ashore in place until it can learn more about how the virus remains active in an asymptomatic person.

The U.S. is the world's worst affected country by COVID-19, having recorded over 830,000 cases and over 45,000 deaths.

Globally, the number of people that have tested positive for COVID-19 has exceeded 2.6 million, with more than 181,000 fatalities.

Source(s): CNN