Covid-19 adds extra headache to Hurricane Laura evacuations

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Covid-19 adds extra headache to Hurricane Laura evacuations

Thu, 2020-08-27 02:29 — mike kraft

Covid-19 adds extra headache to Hurricane Laura evacuations More than 1.5 million people are under evacuation orders in Texas and Louisiana as powerful Hurricane Laura approaches the Gulf Coast, and the Covid-19 pandemic is multiplying the misery. Theresa Waldrop, CNN CNN

CNN)More than 1.5 million people are under evacuation orders in Texas and Louisiana as powerful Hurricane Laura approaches the Gulf Coast, and the Covid-19 pandemic is multiplying the misery.

Covid-19 has "added a complexity to this that was difficult, it was a challenge," Galveston, Texas, Mayor Pro Tem Craig Brown told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

In Louisiana, the state is picking people up and taking them to hotels instead of shelters "because of Covid concerns," Mike Steele, communications director at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security, told CNN.

"We're trying to avoid congregate sheltering," Steele said.

Galveston added extra buses to transport people out, so that they could keep their distance from one another, Brown said.

Hotels are putting one person to a room to keep people separated, Brown said, and the city had ambulances "for those that needed isolation as they were being transported off the island," he said....

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