quarantine

“Their subsidiaries — some 36 of them — have been placed under financial quarantine. For markets, this isn’t bureaucracy; it’s shock therapy.”

"If any abnormal deaths or suspected animal infections are found among pigs, please immediately report them to the local animal quarantine authorities," Lai said in a Facebook post.

Since a blockade is an act of war against an enemy state, China would call its action something else, such as a quarantine.

It ended with Bell bored and alone in quarantine, when the rest of the squad had gone home, having contracted Covid-19.

The following morning, slightly hungover, a rumour reaches them about some holidaymakers on the island who have fallen ill with a mystery virus and been quarantined in their hotel.