coming across cleared by that process which i m comfortable with. with regards to covid, the afghans coming from the middle east into our locations that we have stood up are all being tested. actually multiple times. we test them 100% upon arrival at each location. they re getting tested at dulles as well. and en route they get tested. i ll give you some numbers. we are seeing so far to date when i was at ft. mccoy only three out of more than 1,300 had tested positive. when i went to ft. bliss, the same day, 1 out of more than 1200 had tested positive for covid-19. i hope that helps. one out of 1200. jim? hi, general. jennifer griffin with fox news. i want to go back a little bit to numbers. what percentage would you say of the people who are processing on
the immigration process. i m grateful for the support of the community surrounding each of our bases and for the volunteers and others who are aiding in all of the efforts. together, we re honoring our commitment to our afghan partners families. i look forward to taking your questions. thank you. thank you, general. start with you. hi, general. can you tell us how many evacuees have gone through dulles? the governor said today the numbers are 14,000. we were told earlier there was about 7,000 siv. can you square those numbers for us? and then i have a follow up. i don t have a specific number for you. state department would be best to answer that. i can tell what you has come to us and that s 6,578 at four separate locations. i will tell you what we re seeing is of those that do
to these bases are siv holders or applicants? or are you also housing people who apply for refugee status? just trying to understand the breakdown who have is on these bases and then secondly, there are frorts dulles that some of those commercial flights that have come in had to keep people on the tarmac for ten hours while screeners come onboard. is anything being done to rectify that? is that a dhs issue? are you aware of that issue at dulles? i don t have the siv noub in front of me. what i would tell you is the siv numbers have not been in excess of 50%. i don t have the detall right now. with regards to the problems you re describing at dulles, i m aware that longer waits that you describe. we work very hard over the last
and biodata has been run through the established databases. second, you also mentioned some of the medical support the military is providing including vaccinations. does that include covid vaccines at the bases? are those mandatory or optional? the vaccines are offered to them. they re offered at dulles. we offer them as well as the task force locations. they are not mandatory. we see many are taking the vaccine if they ve not already had it. on the paperwork that they are getting assistance for siv paperwork, any u.s. military component? do you have any military members who are assisting with that paperwork? so the paperwork on our end for accountability purposes where they arrive at the task force, we absolutely are part of that paper work process to ensure accountability, to provide security, et cetera, for them at each of those locations. prior to arriving at our task
couple days to make the process as efficient an effective. when i say, dod worked with the process owner, dhs, to streamline this. specifically customs and border protection along with tsa who owns that process if you will. some of the challenges were being use of the proper vetting authorities, if you will, to ensure that we looked at the same ones and that they were coming across we knew exactly who was certifying that. and that is customs that was certifying across to the other side. what was happening is if the improper system was utilized, they were being flagged as red on the receiving end at dulles. that should give you comfort that we re not leaning towards conservative and pushing them out but ensuring verification. that led to the delays that you re talking about. when i took the brief this morning, we had no airplanes on the ramp waiting at dulles for