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Everything else you need to know about coronavirus this week in the United States

The first flight landed early Friday at Travis Air Force Base -- between San Francisco and Sacramento, California -- a base official told CNN. A second US-bound flight landed later at Vancouver International Airport, facility management spokesman Brock Penner said.
The flights' final destinations are Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, the Defense Department's US Northern Command said. Everyone on the flights will be subject to a 14-day federally mandated quarantine.
Also Friday, some passengers on a cruise ship docked near New York City will be assessed for coronavirus, an official with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. A group of Colby College students returning to Maine from a trip to China are under "self-quarantine" at a hotel in Waterville, Maine, at the request of the school, even though there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Maine, according to the state's Centers for Disease Control.
The fast-moving coronavirus emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan two months ago. Since then, it's killed 638 people, mostly in China, and trapped residents at home, paralyzing the world's second biggest economy.
Outside mainland China, it's raced across continents, infecting over 31,000 in more than 25 countries and territories. In the US, there are at least 12 confirmed cases.
Here are other key developments this week:

The outbreak just keeps growing

This week saw the number of cases reported in the outbreak more than double worldwide.
At the end of last week, there had been 14,549 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 305 deaths worldwide. The US had eight cases.
Other countries have started evacuating citizens from China as well.
About 150 British citizens will be flown from Wuhan back to England Sunday, the UK's South Central Ambulance Service said on Friday. Those patients will be transferred to a facility in Milton Keynes, north-west of London, where they will be quarantined for 14 days.
Two Brazilian Air Force planes also left Wuhan Friday, according to the Brazilian Air Force's official Twitter account. Aboard the plane were 34 Brazilians, four Polish citizens, one Chinese citizen and an Indian citizen. The non-Brazilian citizens will be dropped off during the flight's layover in Poland. Once in Brazil, the citizens will be quarantined for 18 days on an Air Force base.

US likely not chartering any more flights out of Wuhan

As the numbers skyrocket, the US has worked to get Americans out of China.
About 300 people are due to arrive Friday in the US from Wuhan aboard what could be the final two flights chartered by the State Department.
The flight that landed Friday morning at Travis Air Force Base is expected to head to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, before reaching Omaha. The other flight ultimately is headed to San Diego.
None of the evacuees from China that arrived in Texas are sick, Capt. Jennifer McQuiston with the CDC said at a press conference Friday. Some of the passengers will continue on to Omaha. Fewer than 100 of the passengers who remain will be kept at the air force base. All of the evacuees will be under federal quarantine for 14 days.
The State Department does not anticipate chartering any planes after this week, an official said.
In Canada, a flight carrying 176 passengers landed late Thursday at Vancouver International Airport, an airport official said.

All the passengers will be quarantined

The health of passengers headed to the United States will be monitored and checked repeatedly during their flights. After disembarking, they will be screened and placed under a 14-day federally mandated quarantine, according to the US Northern Command, a part of the Department of Defense.
Those who show symptoms upon arrival or during the quarantine period will be taken to area hospitals for isolation and treatment.
Evacuations of Americans from Wuhan started last month, with one flight carrying nearly 200 Americans landing at the March Air Reserve Base in Southern California. Those passengers were quarantined.
On Wednesday, two more flights out of Wuhan arrived in California, carrying a total of 350 passengers. They were taken to Travis Air Force Base and the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. They were also quarantined.

Quarantine covers those on regular flights from China

The federal quarantine order applies to Americans arriving on regular passenger flights, as well.
US citizens returning from China on commercial flights are being rerouted to one of 11 airports that can handle extra health screenings. Those passengers may be subject to quarantine, according to new federal rules that went into effect Sunday.
The 11 designated commercial airports are in: New York (John F. Kennedy), Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago (O'Hare), Atlanta, Honolulu, Dallas, Detroit, Newark and Washington (Dulles).
The Pentagon announced that 11 additional military locations have been approved to accept people for quarantine if public health authorities believe there are coronavirus concerns. The additional military housing sites are located near the 11 airports accepting flights.

The outbreak is not just on land

Passengers are not just trapped at home and in military bases.
More than 7,300 people are being quarantined on two cruise ships docked in Hong Kong and Japan over concerns they were inadvertently exposed to the coronavirus by infected passengers.
At least 61 people from all over the world have tested positive for coronavirus on the cruise ship docked in Japan, including 11 Americans.

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