Esper approves housing for up to 1,000 evacuated from coronavirus-affected areas

The Pentagon is getting ready to offer housing for as many as 1,000 individuals who might should be quarantined after returning to the U.S. from areas affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

Protection Secretary Mike Esper accepted a request from the Department of Health and Human Providers to offer a number of amenities to deal with no less than 250 individuals via the top of February, based on a press release launched Saturday by the Department of Protection.

“Underneath the request, DOD will solely provide housing help, whereas HHS will probably be chargeable for all care, transportation, and safety of the evacuees,” the assertion read. “DOD personnel won't be instantly in touch with the evacuees and evacuees will not have access to any base location aside from their assigned housing.”

The statement also stated that evacuees can be monitored for 14 days and shall be transported to an area hospital if they show symptoms of the doubtless deadly virus.

The Pentagon has chosen four places to help an evacuation operation, together with Travis Air Drive Base and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California; the 168th Regiment, Regional Coaching Institute in Colorado; and Lackland Air Drive Base in Texas.

POLITICO first reported on Friday that the U.S. authorities was planning to evacuate as many as 1,000 further People from coronavirus-affected areas.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Well being confirmed on Saturday a Boston man in his 20s, who lately traveled to Wuhan, China, tested constructive for the virus late Friday evening, making him the eighth individual in the U.S. to contract the virus, which has killed no less than 259 individuals and contaminated almost 12,000 in China.

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