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- Countries around the world are evacuating citizens from China because of a deadly coronavirus outbreak that originated in the city of Wuhan in December.
- The virus has killed more than 630 people and infected more than 30,000. For the latest case total, death toll, and travel information, see Business Insider's live updates here.
- France has placed its evacuees in a seaside resort, while Australian nationals are being held in a detention center on a remote island.
- Photos from around the world show what these quarantine conditions look like.
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Quarantines have been around since the 14th century, but China has implemented the largest one in human history.
The country closed off the Hubei province in response to a deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 630 people and infected more than 30,000. The quarantine effectively places around 50 million people on lockdown as part of the country's efforts to stop the virus' spread.
As more coronavirus cases are reported outside China, other countries have followed suit by quarantining citizens who have recently returned from Wuhan, the central Chinese city where outbreak began.
Nations including Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom have either evacuated citizens or plan to do so in the coming days. The types of accommodations for these evacuees vary widely. The United States and Italy have placed evacuees in military bases, while Canada has put them up in a motel.
Hong Kong and Japan, meanwhile, have quarantined entire cruise ships.
Here's what quarantine facilities around the world look like.
The city of Wuhan, where the outbreak originated, has turned into a ghost town.
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Wuhan has been quarantined since January 23. All of the city's public transportation — including buses, metros, and ferries — has been halted. Trains and airplanes coming into and out of the city are also shut down, and roadblocks were installed to keep taxis and private cars from exiting.
Wuhan's 11 million residents were told not to leave the city, barring special circumstances. People there have been forced to stockpile food and many of the streets are deserted.
Other parts of the Hubei province are eerily empty as well.
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China has imposed travel restrictions on at least 16 cities in the Hubei province, including Wuhan.
Huanggang, a city of about 7.5 million people, placed its urban core under lockdown on January 23, closing subway and train stations as well as theaters and internet cafés. Many additional cities followed suit with their own travel restrictions.
The US is quarantining hundreds of citizens on military bases.
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As of February 2, US citizens returning home who have been in the Hubei province within the past 14 days can be quarantined for up to two weeks.
On January 29, a flight carrying nearly 200 Americans from Wuhan landed at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California. The passengers have been placed under a 14-day quarantine in the base's living quarters.
On Wednesday, another set of roughly 350 evacuees arrived in the US. They are being quarantined at two California military bases: the Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield and the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego.
Of the 167 passengers who landed in San Diego, four were transported to local hospitals after showing symptoms of the virus, the CDC said.
A flight carrying additional passengers from Wuhan took off on Wednesday, headed for the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. A fourth flight will carry evacuees to the Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska.
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