The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ordered a federal 14-day quarantine for nearly 200 Americans who recently returned from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ordered a federal 14-day quarantine for the 195 Americans on an Air Force base in California recently evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
It's the first such order in more than 50 years, made as officials work to contain the outbreak that has so far killed at least 213 people and infected more than 9,000 others in China, most of them in Wuhan. Outside mainland China, there are 140 confirmed cases, including six in the United States.
Coronavirus declared a global health emergency 02:56The last time such a quarantine order was issued was in the 1960s for smallpox evaluation, Dr. Martin Cetron, director of CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, told reporters Friday."We believe that this approach of having a quarantine for the incubation period offers the greatest level of protection for the American public in preventing introduction and spread," Cetron said."That is our primary concern.
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