Sailor from USS Roosevelt is found unresponsive in isolation on Guam base as 416 from the ship - 10 percent of its crew - test positive for COVID-19 a week after the captain was fired for sounding the alarm

A sailor from the USS Roosevelt - the COVID-19 infected Navy ship which a captain was fired from for sounding the alarm - has been found unresponsive in isolation on a Guam military base after testing positive for the virus.

No details about the sailor, including their gender, age or whether or not they have any underlying health conditions, have been released aside from that they tested positive for COVID-19 on March 30. Since then, they have been in isolation on land.

They were found unresponsive in their room on Thursday morning and have been taken to the Naval Hospital on Guam where they are in intensive care.

More than 400 of the ship's 4,000 crew have now tested positive for the virus.

It has caused a military row after Captain Brett Crozier - the former captain - was removed over a letter he wrote to top brass asking them to allow him to evacuate the crew because he was concerned about the spread.

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A sailor from the USS Roosevelt (pictured docked on April 7 in Guam) was found unresponsive in isolation on Thursday morning. The sailor tested positive for coronavirus on March 30. They have since been isolating on the military base in Guam

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Captain Brett Crozier (left) was fired for writing a memo which raised concern about the infection on the ship. Former Acting US Navy Secretary Thomas Modly (right) called him 'naive and stupid'. He has since resigned

The letter was leaked to the media and Crozier was instead removed from his post last Thursday.

The crew cheered and saluted him as he left the ship.

He was later accused by Acting US Navy Secretary Thomas B. Modly of weakening the military's position by publicly revealing that the ship's crew had been compromised.

Modly called him 'naive and stupid' during an address to the ship's crew about the scandal and was heckled by the sailors for his unkind remarks.

He has since resigned.

There have now been 416 positive cases of coronavirus on board the ship.

Captain Crozier is among those infected. In his letter to top Navy brass, he begged them to allow him to evacuate the ship.

'We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,' he wrote.

The memo was leaked to the press and Crozier was then accused of harming national security.

As he left the ship last Thursday, thousands of sailors on board saluted him and cheered his name.

When Modly arrived in Guam shortly afterwards to give a briefing on the decision, the crew heckled him.

One secretly recorded him calling Crozier naive and stupid. He has since apologized for the rhetoric and has resigned.

Trump initially sided with Modly and said he was right to strip Crozier of his position.

He has since distanced himself from the scandal and said he heard Crozier is an 'outstanding person'.

Modly stepped in after former US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was fired from the post for protesting President Trump's decision to intervene in the case of Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was accused of war crimes but acquitted of the most severe ones.

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Guests at the Hilton Guam Resort and Spa on Thursday where some of the ship's 4,000 crew have been quarantined

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One man who identified himself as a crew member from the Roosevelt exercises on his balcony on the Roosevelt on Thursday

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Another man exercises on his balcony at the Hilton. He did not confirm whether or not he was a member of the crew. More than 400 of them tested positive for coronavirus

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There are still other guests at the hotel. The sailors have been put into isolation in their rooms there

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The Hilton in Guam on Thursday. A Customs and Quarantine Agency vehicle was spotted arriving at a security checkpoint on Thursday

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The sailors chanted 'Captain, Crozier! Captain Crozier' and clapped as he left the ship, which was docked in Guam on Thursday April 2

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Crozier is seen above disembarking the ship in Guam for the last time after he was fired over a letter he wrote asking the Navy high command to evacuate the ship due to an outbreak of the coronavirus on board

He initially tried to defend his decision to fire Crozier by saying: 'One of the first things I learned as a midshipman was this phrase that I think became popular in World War II, which is loose lips sink ships.

‘You know, maybe we need up update that now for the digital era, but I think the message is pretty clear. We have to be careful with the information we share and how we share it.'

Modly had previously said Crozier would 'absolutely not' face retaliation for writing the letter - but indicated that he would be punished if officials found that he was the one who leaked it.

'The fact that he wrote the letter up to his chain of command to express his concerns would absolutely not result in any type of retaliation,' Modly told reporters on Wednesday.

Asked repeatedly about how the letter came to light publicly, he said: 'I don't know who leaked the letter to the media.

'That would be something that would violate the principles of good order and discipline, if he [Crozier] were responsible for that. But I don't know that.'

The USS Roosevelt was in the middle of a deployment to the Philippine and South China Seas when the Navy ordered it to cease sail on March 26 after at least 25 crew members tested positive.

In his four-page letter to Navy leaders, Crozier warned that the outbreak was 'ongoing and accelerating' and called for the immediate evacuation and isolation of 90 percent of the USS Roosevelt crew.