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Over 60 migrant children held at California facilities treated for COVID-19
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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 at the Pomona Fairplex site, which began housing migrant children Saturday and currently hosts 216 children, 14 have tested positive for COVID and are being housed separately, local ABC station KABC reported. The site has the capacity to hold about 2,500 children.
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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 Fairplex site as of Wednesday - just days after it started welcoming migrant children on Saturday
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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.
“The cases are either all asymptomatic or very mild symptoms,” Caplan told City News Service. “The children are getting excellent care from UCLA Health, our medical provider.”