Migrants line up outside the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition migrant shelter in Del Rio, Texas, after being released by U.S. Border Patrol. Many of the migrants will later take state-funded bus rides to Washington, New York or Chicago. © Rick Jervis / USA TODAY NETWORK
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(Brooklyn, NY) — Two people living in one of New York City’s migrant shelters have come down wit the measles. The outbreak is taking place at the Hall Street shelter in Brooklyn. It’s unclear where the two people contracted the disease, but the city’s health department is working to find out if anyone else has been exposed. If so, they’ll need to quarantine for 21 days. Measles is highly contagious but is preventable through vaccination.
There’s a steady decline in the number of migrants arriving in New York City over recent months. City officials say 900 arrived last week, the first time in a long time the number has been under one thousand. Between eleven-hundred and 15-hundred asylum seekers have been arriving in the city every week since March, a big dip from the nearly four thousand weekly arrivals in January. However, the number of migrants in shelters has only dropped a bit and sits at around 64-thousand. City officials say they will focus on resettlement for migrant families and then that number should drop further.
