The US government has declared a state of emergency regarding the coronavirus and has taken measures to conduct strict controls on those foreign nationals who have visited China. The decision comes as the Chinese government announced an increase in deaths due to the virus.
Chinese officials said Saturday that at least 258 people have died and nearly 12,000 have been infected by the virus.
The continued spread of the coronavirus prompted US Secretary of Health Alex Azar to announce on Friday that he would be barred from entering the United States by any foreign national who has recently traveled to China, except those who are members of the district. close family, they have US citizens.
He also said that any US citizen who has traveled to Hubei province in China for the past two weeks will be placed in the 'mandatory 14-day quarantine' period of incubation of the virus.
The announcement comes as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the sixth case of coronavirus in the United States. Health officials say the latest patient is from Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco. He had recently visited China.
US health officials on Friday issued a two-week quarantine order for the 195 Americans evacuated earlier this week from Wuhan. This is the first federal-level quarantine ordered since the 1960s related to a smallpox outbreak.
Also Friday, three US airlines announced they would suspend flights to China. / VOA
'quarantine' - a safeguard that is taken to prevent the spread of epidemic diseases by temporarily keeping the infected people, animals or plants affected by the disease, those suspected of being affected by a disease or humans temporarily isolated from others dealing with them.
