{"id":62313,"date":"2020-02-17T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T04:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=62313"},"modified":"2020-02-17T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T04:18:17","slug":"more-than-100-released-from-covid-19-quarantine-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=62313","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 released from COVID-19 quarantine in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/quarantine-ends-for-germanys-coronavirus-evacuees\/a-52397242#\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/image\/52397165_303.jpg\" alt=\"Red Cross members stand in a circle outside the Germersheim barracks\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">More than 100 evacuees were given the all-clear to leave the military barracks in Germersheim on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN, Feb 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0More than a hundred German nationals were on Sunday released from quarantine at a military base near Frankfurt airport, two weeks after flying in from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All the people concerned have been allowed to leave the quarantine zone and rejoin their families,&#8221; secretary of state for health Thomas Gebhart told a press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of them was contaminated by the virus which has killed more than 1,700 people, the vast majority in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They arrived in Frankfurt airport by plane along with more than 20 foreigners, mainly Chinese, on Feb&nbsp;1, after being delayed when Russia refused to let the plane land and refuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some were subsequently hospitalised but now all have been released, the health ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their two-week quarantine period was spent at the military base at Germersheim, 120 kilometres&nbsp;from Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These measures have not been easy for the people involved, but were absolutely necessary,&#8221; said Gebhart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany is the European country with the most people infected with the COVID-19 strain, with 16 cases confirmed, but no fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/france-coronavirus-death-outside-asia-chinese-tourist-12438550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only coronavirus death in Europe<\/a>&nbsp;to date was that of an 80-year-old Chinese tourist in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 70,000 people have now been infected worldwide since the virus strain was first detected in December &#8211;\u00a0but the number of new cases has begun to decline. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 evacuees were given the all-clear to leave the military barracks in Germersheim on Sunday. BERLIN, Feb 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0More than a hundred German nationals were on Sunday released from quarantine at a military base near Frankfurt airport, two weeks after flying in from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the deadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}