quarantine
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They were given first aid before being taken to Nandankanan Zoological Park in the state capital, Bhubaneswar, where they are in quarantine and being monitored.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
About two weeks before the flight, the Crew-13 astronauts will begin quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
It is home to an immigration detention facility, and was used by the Australian government as a quarantine site during the Covid-19 pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
But there is no room in the quarantine ward at Mama Yemo Hospital; so she leaves the hospital and hails another taxi.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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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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
In the meantime, he has been regularly communicating with his fiance and family, and he has messaged other passengers also quarantined in Omaha.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
If any quarantined passengers develop symptoms, they will be moved to biocontainment units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
It must be right that Prentisstown was quarantined cuz of the Noise germ, huh?
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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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
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
And many American doctors initially opposed the procedure as dangerous, medically unproven, and expensive because of physicians’ often-hefty fees and the cost of maintaining facilities for quarantining people temporarily after they were inoculated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
I remember lice from the boat—Mam was terrified of us kids getting it, and she checked our heads every day, quarantining us when we heard about outbreaks in other cabins.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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