The City of New London, alongside multiple community partners, launched its first COVID-19 isolation site Monday afternoon.
"We needed something immediately, we acted and we got it done," said Chief Tom Curcio of the New London Fire Department. Curcio is also the city's emergency management director.
The isolation center is designed to help people who have to self isolate because they are showing symptoms of COVID-19 or because they have tested positive for COVID-19, but have nowhere to go. "We have to provide spaces so that we keep down the community transmission," explained Mayor Michael Passero.
Passero and Curcio both acknowledged that New London is a regional hub for people in need of various social services.