Those that tested negative were allowed to remain on the island and those with the disease were transported to a temporary quarantine facility.

In 2002 a new veterinary hospital was completed, along with brooding areas, and a quarantine facility.

Police are now on standby to prevent anyone leaving the two quarantine facilities.

Where the quarantine facilities are inadequate, residents need to be taken back to hospital.

Villas and monastic buildings in the hills around the city were commandeered for new isolation and quarantine facilities: lazaretti for plague cases, and forty-day quarantine centres for contacts and survivors.