<p class="title">US Defense Secretary Mark Esper will "thoroughly review" the Navy's preliminary inquiry into a <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and then meet with Navy leadership to discuss the next steps, the Pentagon said on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a statement, the Pentagon said Esper had received a verbal update from the acting Navy Secretary and Chief of Naval operations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After the Secretary receives a written copy of the completed inquiry, he intends to thoroughly review the report and will meet again with Navy leadership to discuss next steps," the statement added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US officials have told Reuters that during the Friday meeting, the US Navy recommended reinstating the fired captain of the coronavirus-stricken carrier, whose crew hailed him as a hero willing to risk his job to safeguard his sailors.</p>
<p class="title">US Defense Secretary Mark Esper will "thoroughly review" the Navy's preliminary inquiry into a <a href="http://www.deccanherald.com/tag/coronavirus" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and then meet with Navy leadership to discuss the next steps, the Pentagon said on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a statement, the Pentagon said Esper had received a verbal update from the acting Navy Secretary and Chief of Naval operations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"After the Secretary receives a written copy of the completed inquiry, he intends to thoroughly review the report and will meet again with Navy leadership to discuss next steps," the statement added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US officials have told Reuters that during the Friday meeting, the US Navy recommended reinstating the fired captain of the coronavirus-stricken carrier, whose crew hailed him as a hero willing to risk his job to safeguard his sailors.</p>