Atlanta has now tested most of its residents who stay in homeless shelters for the COVID-19 virus. An effort to survey those who live outside is still underway.
The more than 2,000 tests uncovered about 30 new positive cases in shelters. That brings the total number of people reported to be homeless and have the virus to at least 55 as of Monday. There has been only one known coronavirus-related death among the city’s homeless.
In last year’s “Point-In-Time” count, the city estimated that more than 3,200 people are either living in Atlanta’s homeless shelters or outside.
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