Cold night shelters are opening tonight and tomorrow for people who are homeless. Those wishing to seek shelter will need to go to the Good Samaritan Thrift Store between 7 and 9 p.m. There, they will be screened for COVID-19 before being transported to either City Walk, Capital City Youth Services, or Jacob Chapel Baptist Church. Those suspected of having COVID-19 will be taken to a hotel room. Gwynn Virostek is President and CEO of Capital City Youth Services. She says her facility will be able to shelter 12 people:
"Everyone who comes into our facility will need to be wearing a mask. We have hand sanitizers, we have disinfecting materials to disinfect all of our tables and bathrooms, and so on and so forth."
Virostek says six people will have a bedroom to themselves. Two people will share a room. And four people can sleep in a large conference room. She says the cots will be socially distanced, and two staff members will stay up all night monitoring shared bathrooms to disinfect them between uses.
