Opening of isolation complex comes as number of Covid-19 cases statewide approaches 3,000, with at least 114 deaths
In early March, Las Vegas, a city with more than 147,000 hotel rooms, had homeless people sleep on the ground in a parking lot after a local shelter temporarily closed because of coronavirus. Photographs of homeless people lying on the concrete in marked-off squares, with the empty hotels behind them, prompted public condemnation around the world.
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This emergency shelter has been closed for some time now. A new isolation center, believed to be a first of its kind in the US, opened this week to give anyone who is sick and homeless a safe place to go: https://t.co/IwvIS6xX1J
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