LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. health officials Friday issued a quarantine order for all 195 American evacuees from China, the first time in half a century the government has taken such a step.
The evacuees were flown on a charter flight earlier this week from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the new virus outbreak.
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