
Quarantine
Disease Control
Quarantine can be a strategy to contain diseases, not a punishment.

The doctors recommended quarantine to control the flu outbreak.
Time-specific
Quarantine usually has a set time frame based on disease incubation.

The quarantine lasts for 14 days, the incubation period of the virus.
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