The authority in Los Angeles County, where housing is expensive, has decided to isolate homeless COVID-19 patients in a mobile home park with an ocean view near a local beach.
Over 20 homeless people have been taken to the Dockweiler Park in El Segundo, in the southern suburb of Los Angeles.
According to AFP, about 100 white caravans are lined up side by side, and mask-wearing guards are blocking entrances as health workers in protective gear move in and out of the trailers, providing patients with vests and breathing aids.
The park is one of five shelters commissioned so far by Los Angeles County to isolate the COVID-19 patients, mostly homeless people who count 50,000 in the region.
"We need places where people can be safely isolated from the public and even from their families," County Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement.
After two weeks of social isolation measures aimed at containing the coronavirus spread, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a $50 million fund to buy mobile homes and to rent spaces in which those living on the street could self-isolate.
California purchased 1,300 mobile homes to cope with the ongoing health situation.
