quarantine
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In the end, Price’s designer makeover came at the perfect time, concluding just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the family forced to quarantine inside the dwelling for weeks on end.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
In a news release last week from the department, a new quarantine area in San Diego County was expanded by 19 square miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Kenya has ordered a halt to preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility, the health minister told a court Tuesday, after being held in contempt for ignoring a previous stop-work order.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The quarantine facility is intended for US citizens who are suspected to have contracted Ebola in the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
These local monopolies are reinforced by the Japanese government, which obstructs the import of foreign processed food by imposing a 10-day quarantine, among other restrictions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Ongoing quarantines can affect locals who grow and sell fruits and also residents of the affected areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
To be sure, screwworms can be contained through quarantines, tighter surveillance, and other methods.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The department said it had also enacted "quarantines, movement controls, and surveillance" in that area.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
We know now that by late February 2020, Covid-19 was spreading at a speed that quarantines could no longer control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Farmer strongly believed that quarantines were not an effective strategy for handling AIDS, but the Cuban approach had been far more humane.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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People with Ebola-like symptoms avoid seeking treatment, fearing they will be quarantined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the U.S. plans to transport all seven Americans to Germany, where they will likely continue to be quarantined.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Two of the exposed Californians are quarantined at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Soon after their arrival they will be repatriated, or, in the case of the 14 Spaniards aboard, taken to Madrid to be quarantined.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
They rolled Yossarian away on a stretcher into the room with the other soldier who saw everything twice and quarantined everyone else in the ward for another fourteen days.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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After that, Ugandan officials quickly swung into action, tracking down and quarantining dozens of people the man had encountered while ill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It didn’t take endless quarantining with my spouse during the COVID-19 pandemic to end my marriage of over two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
In the U.S., some Americans who disembarked earlier in the trip and returned home before the outbreak had been made public are quarantining at home.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Spain's health ministry earlier said one Spaniard who is quarantining in Madrid after being evacuated from the vessel had also provisionally tested positive for hantavirus on Monday.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Currie admitted that the illness was “strengthened by a particular construction of the atmosphere,” but he insisted that the best way to deal with it was by quarantining the sick.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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