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Three federal contractors are operating the migrant center at the Long Beach Convention Center, but details of their work remain unknown.
Over 60 migrant children held at California facilities treated for COVID-19 On Location: May 7, 2021 Replay Video UP NEXT Over 60 migrant children at two California holding centers have tested positive for COVID-19, sparking worry over the health of unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. from across the border. At the Long Beach Convention Center housing 728 migrant children, 55 of them have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Thursday, Zhan Caplan, spokesperson of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told ABC News. The center has a capacity to hold 1,000 children. Meanwhile...
Migrant intake center opened in Long Beach Convention Center places 67 children in isolation after 47 of them test positive for COVID-19 The intake center opened just over a week ago and has the capacity to hold about 1,000 children It was already housing 710 migrant children as of Wednesday Officials said that siblings among the 67 children placed in isolation are being kept together The agency also operates another facility at the Pomona Fairplex, about 30 miles from the Convention Center, where another 14 children have tested positive There were 216 children housed at the Pomona Fa...
Print About four dozen migrant children being housed at an intake center at the Long Beach Convention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, along with 14 more at the Pomona Fairplex, and all are in isolation and receiving on-site medical care, federal officials confirmed. As of Wednesday, the Long Beach center was housing 710 migrant children, and 47 of them have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Zhan Caplan of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which operates the sites. A total of 67 children were in isolation, with Caplan noting that siblings are kept together. ...
COVID HOTSPOT New migrant intake center in California places 67 kids in isolation after FORTY SEVEN of them test positive for Covid M.L. Nestel Updated: May 6 2021, 0:22 ET M.L. Nestel Invalid Date, OFFICIALS at two Southern California immigration intake centers are trying to contain a COVID-19 outbreak after 61 migrant children tested positive for the disease. There were a total of 47 kids out of 710 being housed at the Long Beach Convention Center who came back with Covid-19 positive tests and some 14 of the 216 staying at the Pomona Fairplex, a federal official confirmed to KABC-TV. ...