Editing Module:COVID-19 pandemic in France (section)

===''Charles de Gaulle'' aircraft carrier===
{{main|COVID-19 pandemic on Charles de Gaulle}}
The [[Ministry of Armed Forces (France)|Ministry of Armed Forces]] reported infections on board one of its ships on 8 April 2020. After about 40 crew members aboard the aircraft carrier {{ship|French aircraft carrier|Charles de Gaulle||2}} showed symptoms, the ship cut short its mission and returned to its home port of [[Toulon]] on 12 April 2020, 11 days earlier than planned.<ref name="france2420200408A"/><ref name="reuters-heading"/> The ministry initially announced that out of 66 personnel tested, 50 were positive.<ref name="gaulle.parisien"/><ref name="AutoQ7-31"/> Three sailors were evacuated by air to {{ill|Saint Anne Army Teaching Hospital|fr|Hôpital d'instruction des armées Sainte-Anne}}.<ref name="gaulle.parisien" /><ref name="gaulle.times"/> On 18 April 2020, the final count of infected crew members was announced as 1,046 with nearly 50 percent diagnosed as asymptomatic.<ref name="AutoQ7-33"/>

The carrier arrived in Toulon on the afternoon of 12 April 2020, when a 14-day quarantine for the crew began. The source of the infection remains unknown, as the last port of call had been Brest from 13 to 15 March.<ref name="20200409courrierinternational"/><ref name="franceinfo"/><ref name="AutoQ7-34"/><ref name="20200416theguardian"/>{{excessive citations inline|date=June 2020}}

There was criticism in France the carrier mission was not interrupted after the first cases were detected,<ref name="AutoQ7-35"/> and rumours that the carrier had asked permission to interrupt its mission in mid March during its stopover in [[Brest, France|Brest]], which had been refused. [[Florence Parly]], the French [[Minister of the Armed Forces (France)|Minister of Armed Forces]], said that these rumours were false when questioned by French deputies.<ref name="AutoQ7-36"/>