LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 524-bed Las Vegas homeless shelter closed and health officials began screening untold numbers of people who used it and a nearby city relief facility.
That's after health officials said Wednesday that a homeless person was diagnosed with the new coronavirus. City officials closed a road off Las Vegas Boulevard so up to 750 displaced homeless people could spend the night.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Wednesday that a jail detainee was released to a hospital and tested presumptively positive for coronavirus.
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But the sheriff declared there are no cases of the COVID-19 respiratory illness at county detention facilities in Las Vegas.