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Homeless people in Montreal could receive the vaccine for COVID-19 as early as this week as the city tries to get a spike in COVID-19 cases under control.
With Montreal's COVID-19 cases reaching 83,210 and the total number of deaths due to the disease at 4,001 since the start of the pandemic, CTV confirmed the city will be vaccinating 2,000 homeless people soon.
Montreal's homeless shelters are struggling to house everyone who needs it at night, with Quebec's 8 p.m. curfew in full swing.
MONTREAL -- Several COVID-19 outbreaks among homeless Montrealers have led to such high infection numbers that the city’s system for homeless patients is being rejigged, with dozens of people to be moved between sites in the coming days. First, an entire pavilion of the old Royal Victoria Hospital, with about 125 beds, is being designated a “red” self-isolation zone. A second downtown hotel will also be turned into a shelter for homeless people who are COVID-negative, along with Place Dupuis, the one that opened this fall. “We’re adding a second hotel where [there] will be h...
A team of about a dozen people at the Welcome Hall Mission spent Christmas putting together the shelter’s annual Christmas meals, which featured balanced plates of soup, zucchini and pork, or garlic beef, soup and mushrooms, among other combinations.