State may pay accommodations for homeless to avoid spreading virus

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas residents who need a place to isolate themselves after being exposed to or testing positive for COVID-19 may be able to stay for free in a hotel rented out by the state of Kansas with help from the federal government.

The goal of the program is to provide people who have no other place to stay with an option, so they don’t spread the virus.

Devan Tucking-Strickler of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management in Topeka said she didn’t know how much the state has spent so far on the rooms but renting out an entire hotel costs roughly $3,000 a day at each site.