What is "quarantines"

Usage examples of "quarantines".

With the relaxations on local armed monitors and greater local autonomy, one would expect fewer quarantines, not more.

If what I recall of Newparra is still current, this could be one of the nastier quarantines you will ever see.

There have been ships and houses burned to drive out plague, and quarantines which simply interfered with human beings were countless.

The students seemed surprised that the practice of quarantines had begun in the fourteenth century and that she still considered it a relevant measure of infection control.

Most of the old reasons for imposing quarantines on planets no longer apply.

And that quarantine has remained in effect for all this time, despite advances that have rendered quarantines unnecessary except in extraordinary circumstances.