The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released 195
Americans from quarantine on Tuesday, two weeks after they were
evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak.
The individuals, who are mostly State Department employees and their family members, were quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.
“Today is the 14th day of the quarantine of the individuals who were on the first charter flight returning from Wuhan province and they are currently being assessed to make sure they remain symptom-free, and then we hope they will be released to travel to their home today,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, told reporters Tuesday ahead of the release.
The State Department has evacuated more than 800 individuals from
China since the outbreak began last month. Many of those individuals
have been quarantined at military bases throughout the country.
More than 40,000 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed throughout the world, with only 319 cases occurring outside of China.
Thirteen cases have been confirmed in the U.S., but 11 of those individuals had recently traveled to China.
The CDC has implemented a number of aggressive measures to prevent the virus from spreading in the U.S., including quarantining of Americans arriving from Wuhan and banning foreign nationals from entering the country if they have recently traveled within China.
These measures “[have] slowed the arrival of this virus” into the U.S., Schuchat said Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/482567-cdc-expects-to-release-nearly-200-americans-from-quarantine-tuesday
The individuals, who are mostly State Department employees and their family members, were quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.
“Today is the 14th day of the quarantine of the individuals who were on the first charter flight returning from Wuhan province and they are currently being assessed to make sure they remain symptom-free, and then we hope they will be released to travel to their home today,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, told reporters Tuesday ahead of the release.
More than 40,000 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed throughout the world, with only 319 cases occurring outside of China.
Thirteen cases have been confirmed in the U.S., but 11 of those individuals had recently traveled to China.
The CDC has implemented a number of aggressive measures to prevent the virus from spreading in the U.S., including quarantining of Americans arriving from Wuhan and banning foreign nationals from entering the country if they have recently traveled within China.
These measures “[have] slowed the arrival of this virus” into the U.S., Schuchat said Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/482567-cdc-expects-to-release-nearly-200-americans-from-quarantine-tuesday
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