MORGAN COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia's first patient has been transferred to a special coronavirus isolation spot at a state park in Morgan County.
Channel 2’s Dave Huddleston went to Hard Labor Creek State Park on Wednesday where he found state troopers blocking access to the park.
Earlier in the week, Gov. Brian Kemp mentioned that the Cherokee County man would most likely end up there.
But neighbors who live near the park told Huddleston they weren't expecting the isolation camp would be so close to their homes.
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"It concerned us a little because it's right down our street," neighbor Krista Laster said.
Laster said the trailers that will house coronavirus patients is at the end of the road from her house.
"We probably walk all the way to the lake where they are probably four to five days a week. We go to the lake, they ride their bikes, so it's kind of our neighborhood," Laster said.
Huddleston saw Georgia State Patrol and public safety deputies guarding the road that leads to the seven trailers only letting emergency personnel into the area.
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Currently only one patient from Cherokee County is being housed in a secluded part of the park.
"You got to understand this is a 6,000-acre park and this is a small piece of the 6,000-acre park," said Jeff Cown, with the Georgia State Park Service.
“You could probably throw a baseball from the last person’s house to where the trailers are. It’s very close,” Laster said.
Hard Labor Creek State Park is still open to the public. Park rangers are cleaning common areas like railings and door handles.
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Laster said she has faith they will be fine. She just wishes they could have had more information.
"I think we should have been made aware that it was going to be right in our backyard, but we weren't," Laster said.
The governor’s office told Huddleston that patients will be guarded and monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and only patients that can’t self-isolate at home and not sick enough to go to the hospital will be housed at the park.
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