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If you're homeless in Carroll County, Maryland, you may want to think twice about staying in a hotel room with someone who's tested positive for Coronavirus.
The county is getting $45,000 from the state to pay for quarantines and supplies for the homeless in the event of an outbreak of the virus, which causes cold-like symptoms but is far more dangerous than the common cold, the Baltimore Sun reports.
"This is an innovative funding stream that has come up," says Celene Steckel, director of the county's Department of Citizen Services.
The county's Board of Carroll County Commissioners unanimously gave its approval Thursday.
Steckel says the money will pay for quarantines of homeless people who've tested positive for the virus in individual hotel rooms, as well as supplies for the homeless.
The county's Homeless Circle of Caring Board conducted an annual point-in-time survey in February to count the number of homeless people in Carroll County.
The survey is required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in order for communities to receive federal funds for programs to assist the homeless.
Steckel says the February count showed 62 people living in homeless shelters in Carroll County, and another 11 living on the streets.
She says the majority are not homeless now.
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