Beginning Sunday, the U.S. will also begin funneling all flights to the U.S. from China to seven major airports where passengers can be screened for illness.
There are six cases of this virus in the U.S. and 191 individuals are being monitored, Redfield said. “But I think it’s justified,” he said, noting the evacuees had been in a hot zone for the virus for a long time. Hours later, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced they were suspending all flights between the U.S. and China, joining several international carriers that have stopped flying to China as the virus outbreak continues to spread.
American Airlines said it was halting all flights starting Friday and running through March 27. Delta plans to wait until Feb. 6 to suspend China operations to help travelers in China leave the country. It said the stoppage will continue through April 30. Since China informed WHO about the new virus in late December, at least 23 countries have reported cases, as scientists race to understand how exactly the virus is spreading and how severe it is.
The last time the federal government ordered a quarantine was in 1963 when a woman named Ellen Siegel was held in quarantine for up to 14 days because she did not present a valid certificate of vaccination against small pox. Siegel had visited Sweden when it still had a case of smallpox and although she had been revaccinated about two months earlier, the vaccination was said to be unsuccessful.
This virus seems like biologically engineered with its current fast fatality rate faster than the previous SARS which took 8 months to claim around 8000 death tolls. But this 2019 nCov is only within a month but death tolls increases rapidly at China. Hmmmm...
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