Two hundred British citizens are being flown out of Wuhan - the centre of the new coronavirus outbreak - and back to the UK, where they will be quarantined for 14 days. It comes on the day it was ...

Venice establishes the world's first institutionalized system of quarantine, giving a council of three the power to detain ships, cargoes, and individuals in the Venetian lagoon for up to 40 days.

After arriving in the U.S., all of the passengers will need to go through another 14 days of quarantine--meaning they will have been under quarantine for a total of nearly four weeks. Other ...