SAN FRANCISCO (NYTIMES) - Seventy people at San Francisco's largest homeless shelter have tested positive for the coronavirus, Mayor London Breed said on Friday (April 10).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SAN FRANCISCO - Seventy people at San Francisco's largest homeless shelter have tested positive for the coronavirus, Mayor London Breed said on Friday .
Advocates in San Francisco, where there are more than 8,000 homeless people, had expressed concern in recent weeks that the city had not moved quickly enough to use empty hotel rooms to thin out the shelter system. The shelter where the outbreak occurred, Multi-Service Centre South, normally houses around 400 people. In recent weeks, the city had reduced that number of occupants to 144, all of whom were tested on Friday.
Dr Grant Colfax, the director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, said the city tested residents of the shelter on Wednesday and again on Friday.New York City, which has the country's largest homeless population, has identified coronavirus cases in dozens of shelters. In Silicon Valley, a homeless person living in an encampment died of the disease. At least a dozen homeless people have tested positive for the virus in Los Angeles County, according to the authorities.
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