14-day coronavirus quarantine call might not be enforceable
That, in a nutshell, was the take Wednesday from public health and policing experts after the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced that travelers from states where the coronavirus is raging would be required to self-quarantine for two weeks.
"The U.S. is not China. We're not going to order a military lockdown," Khan said."It is sound advice to ask people from states with high levels of infection to self-isolate for two weeks. But I'm skeptical of how these restrictions can be forced." "No. You violate the quarantine, you will then have to do a mandatory quarantine, and you'll be fined," he said.
The U.S. has enacted international travel bans. For example, on Jan. 31, President Donald Trump barred foreign nationals who had traveled to China within the previous 14 days from entering the U.S., but not U.S. residents or their relatives. The move came 10 days after the first confirmed case of the coronavirus was reported near Seattle.
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