Pentagon orders military bases to stop releasing specific COVID-19 numbers

he Pentagon has ordered military bases and combatant commands to withhold coronavirus case numbers, citing operational security concerns.

"As we continue to grapple with the novel nature of COVID19, we are constantly assessing and adapting not only how we respond to combatting the virus, but also how we share critical public health information with our communities," Pentagon spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said in a statement on Monday.

"We will not report the aggregate number of individual service member cases at individual unit, base or Combatant Commands. We will continue to do our best to balance transparency in this crisis with operational security."



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