Prague's homeless battling COVID-19 find shelter in luxury hotel

PRAGUE - Prague city hall has rented a luxury hotel where homeless people who contract COVID-19 can convalesce and those who come into contact with someone with the disease can isolate.

The city's Centre of Social Services (CSSP) deputy director Ludmila Tomesova said those housed in the hotel were offered three meals a day, full medical attention and television and other amenities while they recovered. "So the hotel ... has guests, even if they are not standard commercial ones, and it is full all the time," she told Reuters at a four-star Prague hotel in the city centre that has housed about 250 people since November.