Isolation (health care)
measures taken in care units to prevent contagious diseases from being spread among patients, health care workers, and visitors / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In hospitals or health care areas, isolation is one of the many measures that can be taken to stop the spread of certain diseases as it would lower the amount of people being infected by it. The most recent case are people being forced by law to stay at home as schools and jobs are closed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. This is different than quarantine as this is for people who have not been infected.