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A2 U.S. NEWS
Saturday 1 February 2020
U.S. evacuees 'relieved' about

quarantine on military base

to stay at March Air Re- bered for overreacting ees are staying in hotel-
serve Base in Riverside for than underreacting," said style housing and have
up to three days of moni- Dr. Nancy Messonnier of spent time walking and
toring and testing. the Centers for Disease exercising, some wearing
On Friday, the government Control and Prevention. masks, said Jose Arballo Jr.,
ordered them into quaran- Later Friday, the govern- a spokesman for the coun-
In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, file photo, passengers board tine for two weeks. Health ment declared a public ty's public health agency.
buses after arriving on an airplane carrying U.S. citizens being officials believe it can take health emergency and As of Friday, none of the
evacuated from Wuhan, China, at March Air Reserve Base in up to two weeks for some- said any other Americans evacuees had shown signs
Riverside, Calif.
Associated Press one who is infected to get returning to the U.S. from of illness, he said. The CDC
sick. So far there's been no Hubei province, which in- said test results are still
By AMY TAXIN here and make sure we're sign of illness. cludes Wuhan, will also be coming in for the group; all
Associated Press all medically clear and the It was the first federal order quarantined for two weeks. have been negative so far.
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) public safe," said Matthew since 1963, when a woman The State Department is One person tried to leave
— Nearly 200 Americans L. McCoy, a theme park was quarantined after she planning more flights to the base Wednesday night
evacuated from China be- designer who lives in China. returned from a trip to Swe- bring Americans out of Wu- and was quarantined by
cause of the new virus are McCoy is among the 195 den during a smallpox out- han. McCoy lives in Shang- the county. The CDC's Dr.
"very relieved' to be quar- Americans who returned break, and she could not hai but got stuck in Wuhan Martin Cetron on Friday
antined at a military base in on a charter flight earlier prove that she had been during a business trip when said that incident did not
Southern California for two this week from Wuhan, the vaccinated. Chinese authorities shut drive the decision for the
weeks, one of them said Fri- Chinese city at the center "We understand this ac- down the city of 11 million federal quarantine.
day. of the outbreak. Initially, tion may seem drastic. We people because of the McCoy said he's been able
"All of us really want to stay health officials asked them would rather be remem- outbreak. Other evacuees to keep up with his work in
include U.S. government his room on the base and
employees and their fami- has hooked his computer
lies. up to the television screen.
"Everybody was very re- Children are outside play-
lieved" about the quaran- ing, and everyone is trying
tine order, McCoy said by to make the experience as
telephone. "We wanted to easy as possible for each
make sure all the tests were other, he said.
done first." Another evacuee said he
At the military base about had been hoping to get
60 miles (97 kilometers) east out over the weekend but
of Los Angeles, the evacu- was OK with the order.q