quarantine

Since a blockade is an act of war against an enemy state, China would call its action something else, such as a quarantine.

It ended with Bell bored and alone in quarantine, when the rest of the squad had gone home, having contracted Covid-19.

The following morning, slightly hungover, a rumour reaches them about some holidaymakers on the island who have fallen ill with a mystery virus and been quarantined in their hotel.

So I’ve been quarantined in a corner of the house, reaching alternately for Tylenol and the thermometer.

Another wrote: "What's the point of the quarantine? It's not as though an infected patient will then go around biting other people?"