Different COVID-19 Quarantine Measures by Country... Isolation in Siberia, Remote Islands, Military Bases, and More

The appearance of Russians quarantined in a camp in Tyumen, Western Siberia [Image source=Instagram/https://www.instagram.com/nd.nadias]

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunwoo Lee] Different COVID-19 virus quarantine methods in each country are becoming a hot topic among netizens worldwide. Russia quarantined all its citizens who returned on chartered flights in Siberia, while countries like Australia and Indonesia quarantined them on remote island areas far from their mainland. Most other countries reportedly prepared quarantine spaces at military bases to accommodate returnees.

According to Russia's TASS news agency, 144 people who returned to Russia from Wuhan on a chartered flight dispatched by the Russian government on the 5th were accommodated at a sanatorium in the forest of Tyumen, a city located in western Siberia. Some of those quarantined at the Tyumen sanatorium have been sharing the local situation through social networking services (SNS), drawing attention on the internet.

They all changed into patient gowns and were assigned rooms with two or three people per room for quarantine. The Russian National Guard patrols 24 hours a day, and surveillance cameras are installed. If anyone escapes without permission during the 14-day quarantine period, they will be quarantined again and confined to the sanatorium for another 14 days from that point.

Christmas Island is an island located more than 2,000 km away from the Australian mainland, notorious in the past for housing asylum seekers and prisoners awaiting deportation. [Image source=Google Maps]

Some countries have accommodated returnees on islands quite far from their homeland. In Australia's case, a detention center was set up on Christmas Island, more than 2,000 km away from the mainland, and all 243 Australians who returned from Wuhan by chartered flight were moved to Christmas Island for quarantine. Christmas Island was notorious in the past as a detention center for asylum seekers or prisoners awaiting deportation. Indonesia also quarantined 238 of its citizens who returned from Wuhan by chartered flight on Natuna Islands, a northern border area far from the mainland. The Natuna Islands are a region involved in a border dispute with China.

Natuna Islands are located in the northern border area of Indonesia and are a region disputed with China over territory.
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In countries such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Thailand, citizens returning by chartered flights were accommodated in separate quarantine facilities prepared at military bases. They are monitored for symptoms during the two-week period known as the longest incubation period of COVID-19, and those without abnormalities are allowed to return home.

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