User blog comment:Orion Invictus/WHO declared China coronavirus a global health emergency/@comment-74.132.82.188-20200131232328/@comment-74.132.82.188-20200201002112

To be fair to you and reporters, I've watched several videos of the actual announcement and Azar never said what was happening to the foreign nationals that were permanent residents or have immediate family after they were let in. Seems an odd thing to omit from a speech. Makes it sound as if Americans were the only ones who would be monitored.

As for your question about quarantining instead of denying the foreign nationals, it might be due to financials and space. There is only so much space for quarantining, so many medical people who can be assigned to work there, so much money, so much medical equipment, so many lab techs and lab equipment. If those quarantined are actually sick, that means more required money, space, and personnel. Since the government doesn't know how large the problem will grow, authorities may be planning for the worst and recognize they can't stretch too thin at the beginning.