"I suddenly had a temperature and was facing the difficulty of whether or not to go to a hospital or quarantine myself," a Beijing-based colleague wrote recently about his delayed travel.

我的一位驻北京的同事在谈到他不得不推迟的行程时写道：“我突然发烧了。”我面临着是去医院还是进行自我隔离的艰难选择。

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He continued his journey in the US by car and is now under quarantine in hospital, according to the WHO.

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The personal injury lawyer was initially placed under federal quarantine at an Atlanta hospital - the first such order since 1963.

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Anyone with a fever or exhibiting flu-like symptoms has been placed in quarantine, usually in a hospital, while anyone whose seat on a plane was close to a person with such symptoms has been sequestered in hotel rooms, the U.S. State Department has said.

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