To keep homeless residents off the street during the coronavirus outbreak, city and state officials are finalizing a plan to use a temporarily-closed Central Business District hotel as shelter, according to a WWL-TV report.

At 155 rooms, the Hilton Garden Inn-New Orleans French Quarter Downtown intends to provide New Orleans' homeless residents a space to sleep and eat for the next 30 days. The hotel staff and city officials will move them in groups of 35 at a time, the general manager of the hotel said in an interview with the television station.

“We have transitioned our hotel into an intake facility,” said hotel general manager Adam Turni.

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The hotel is able to provide this service through a mixture of federal, state, local and nonprofit funds, Turni said. The National Guard will send the hotel equipment and supplies, while police officers will be assigned to every floor of the hotel to make sure guests isolate themselves.

They will screen guests for COVID-19 symptoms before letting them in, Turni said. Once they're approved to stay, they will have access to three meals a day, clean rooms and laundry service.

The hotel is waiting for state officials to agree to cover costs before the plan is put into action, Turni told WWL-TV.

"The state of Louisiana is working to get everything finalized on the contract to make sure that the process can start as soon as possible," said Gov. John Bel Edwards' spokeswoman, Christina Stephens.

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Several officials have discussed the idea of using hotels and dorm rooms, now closed and mostly empty due to Gov. John Bel Edwards' statewide "stay at home" mandate, as places for hospital overflow and shelter for homeless residents.

During a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced that the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has been tapped as a space for patients recovering from the novel coronavirus in an effort to relieve the city's hospitals from running out of capacity. It would house around 3,000 patients, she said.

Last week, officials closed Bayou Segnette State Park in Westwego in order to make it an isolated place to stay for homeless coronavirus patients.