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US imposes travel restrictions, mandatory quarantines over coronavirus outbreak

The Trump administration on Friday declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States, and announced that people who pose a risk of transmitting the disease will temporarily be suspended from entering the U.S. CNBC.

US to quarantine US citizens who have been in Hubei, China, require self-quarantine for other parts of china

Once the declaration goes into effect at 5 p.m. ET Sunday, US citizens returning to the United States who have been in China’s Hubei province in the two weeks before their return will be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine. . . .

US citizens returning from the rest of mainland China will face a health screening . . . [and] up to two weeks of monitored self-quarantine to ensure they pose no health risk. CNN.