Detroit Metropolitan Airport is one of 11 airports in the country to which travelers who have recently traveled from China are being routed for enhanced screening procedures and possible quarantine amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began enforcing restrictions for all passenger flights to the United States carrying people who have traveled from China within the last 14 days.
"Our team at Detroit Metropolitan Airport is committed to assisting our federal partners in their efforts to protect the public from exposure to the coronavirus," Wayne County Airport Authority CEO Chad Newton said in a news release. "Although airport staff does not conduct passenger screening, our emergency responders are prepared to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health departments with medical transportation and police escorts, when needed. Also, out of an abundance of caution, we're cleaning the Federal Inspection Station — also known as the International Arrivals area — more frequently in both the McNamara and North terminals."
Where the detained passengers would be treated or quarantined was not disclosed.
The pneumonia-like virus has infected more than 20,000 people around the world and killed at least 427 as it continues to spread beyond its origin of Wuhan in the Hubei Province of China.
Four people in metro Detroit who had recently traveled to China were tested for coronavirus in January, but all tests were negative.
"... We are preparing as if this were the next pandemic," Nancy Messonnier, M.D., director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Respiratory Diseases, said in a media briefing Monday. "... Strong measures now may blunt the impact of this virus on the United States."
The last time U.S. health officials issued a mandatory quarantine was in the 1960s during a smallpox outbreak, they said.
Also Monday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services activated the Community Health Emergency Coordination Center in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
The center will develop and distribute guidelines and educational materials about new coronavirus strain to public health agencies and health care providers as needed.
Last week, Delta Air Lines, the dominant carrier at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, said it would temporarily suspend all U.S. flights to China beginning Feb. 6 through April 30 as officials around the globe work to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus.
Delta operates 42 weekly flights between the U.S. and China, including daily flights between Metro Airport and Beijing and Shanghai.
The other airports that are accepting diverted passengers are John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York; Chicago O'Hare International Airport; San Francisco International Airport; Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Hawaii; Los Angeles International Airport; Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Washington-Dulles International Airport; Newark Liberty International Airport, and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
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