A temporary medical facility at the McAllen Convention Center, which will be used to treat coronavirus patients, should open either this weekend or early next week, Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said Thursday during an interview with Channel 5 News.

"We’ll be ready to take the first patients and then, already in Pharr, there is a facility that is open and ready to take patients — again just working with the hospitals that we get the right level of acuity or the right sensitivity of the patients so we have the providers to care for," Kidd said.

Kidd said the state is sending millions of pieces of personal protective equipment to the Rio Grande Valley and all over the state of Texas.

"We have over 20 warehouses across the state in various locations that have additional P.P.E. (Personal Protective Equipment) should that need come up," Kidd said.

Kidd also encouraged Valley residents to report damage caused by Hurricane Hanna.

“One of the things we want to be sure that we work with is our local government partners and we put several opportunities out there for citizens to report their damages directly to TDEM (Texas Division of Emergency Management) or the to the local government,” Kidd said.