Meaning of self-quarantine | Babel Free

Definitions

Isolation by avoiding physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We apply this model to a large urban area (9 million people) and evaluate the effect of situational awareness (early detection and response) and several response measures, such as mass vaccination, quarantine, closure, mass-transit shutdown, and voluntary self-quarantine on the spread of the epidemic and on the total number of casualties.”

“Eleven city firefighters have tested positive, and more than 50 are in self-quarantine.”

CEFR level