US evacuees freed from coronavirus quarantine, officials fear discrimination - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The 195 US citizens, mostly US State Department employees and their families, underwent the United States’ first mandatory quarantine since 1963 after they were evacuated from the coronavirus-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan.

“They don’t need additional tests, they don’t need to be shunned, they don’t have novel coronavirus,” Kaiser told reporters after his department published a photo of the former patients throwing away their masks in a quarantine graduation ceremony. The March air base group was limited to a fenced quarantine area where only official medical staff were allowed to enter.

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