The Defense Department on Saturday approved housing support for up to 1,000 people should they need to be quarantined upon return from their overseas travel due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement.
Officials from the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) requested DOD to provide several facilities capable of housing at least 250 people in individual rooms through the end of the month.
"DOD personnel will not be directly in contact with the evacuees and evacuees will not have access to any base location other than their assigned housing," the statement said. "In accordance with [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines, all evacuees will be monitored for a period of 14 days."
As has been the case at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California -- where the first planeload of evacuees were taken -- the military will only provide housing support.
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