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The eight freed boys of the Thai soccer team may have seen daylight for the first time in weeks, but they still cannot come face-to-face with their loved ones.
Whilst four boys and their coach remain trapped in the flooded cave system awaiting rescue, the freed members of the soccer team have been quarantined in their own hospital ward.
Doctors fear the children, who are aged between 11 and 16, may have contracted illnesses or infections while they were trapped underground.
Even their mothers and fathers have been unable to visit them.
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Thailand officials have not released the names of the boys rescued, so as not to upset the parents of any child still trapped.
Thailand's health secretary, Dr Jessada Chokedamrongsook, said the group would undergo a series of tests while quarantined in hospital.
The boys will "be evaluated by doctors for five to seven days", Dr Chokedamrongsook said.
"They will be monitored day by day."
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"Living in a cave has a different environment, which might contain animals that could transmit any disease," they said.
"Anyone that has had contact with the boys, including their close family, will be closely monitored to make sure they are disease free."
And while the health experts are being cautious, all accounts suggest the boys are in good health - and even better spirits.
The hospitalised group requested their favourite meals as soon as they were rescued - a fried pork and basil dish.
9News correspondent Alice Monfries said local sources assured her the meal went down "an absolute treat".