quarantine
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Security services have been instructed to quarantine the Yingfeng 2 offshore in line with WHO standards to prevent potential spread of the virus into the capital.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
South Carolina’s health department required unvaccinated students exposed to measles to quarantine for three weeks after possible exposure and eventually declared the outbreak over within seven months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
The quarantine now boarders El Cajon, Proctor Valley, Lemon Grove and McGinty Mountain— with a total of 76 square miles of San Diego County under quarantine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Khrushchev angrily rejected Kennedy’s right to impose a quarantine, comparing Americans to lawless pirates.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
“If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified,” Bhattacharaya wrote.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2024
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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Like many other patients, she co-operated fully with the guidelines even during the frightening time when her 11-month-old baby, whom she was still breastfeeding, was taken away from her and quarantined for 21 days.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
If any quarantined passengers develop symptoms, they will be moved to biocontainment units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
For a week, patients who arrived at the doors were turned away, while sixty-seven people were quarantined inside the hospital, mostly medical staff.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Oceanwide’s Hondius will be cleaned and disinfected in the Netherlands, with crew and staff quarantining, but the company hasn’t planned future sailing cancellations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 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
Some other countries were only quarantining people from the ship for a few days before telling them to isolate at home, the minister said.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Isolating infected people and quarantining households can stop the virus at the secondary stage.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
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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