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Danbury Health officials detail quarantine, isolation differences for coronavirus

Quarantine and isolation are both legal terms.  Danbury Health Department director Lisa Morrissey acknowledged that the word quarantine sounds scary, but in context, it's just asking for movement restrictions. 

Morrissey explained that quarantine is asking people who are not exhibiting symptoms of a disease, but could develop them at some point, to confine themselves to one location.  Isolation is for someone actively symptomatic being confined to one location. 

She says quarantine is something done often, for a variety of reasons including suspected tuberculosis, measles or other similar illnesses. 

Since February 5th, approximately 200 state residents returning to Connecticut from other countries have been under self-monitoring following guidance from the CDC due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Travel guidance issued by the CDC advises anyone returning from China, Iran, Italy, Japan, and South Korea to stay home for a 14-day period of self-monitoring.

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