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About 400 homeless people in Montreal and 200 people who work within the community have received the COVID-19 vaccination so far, the city’s public health department says.
The effort, announced last week, is a response to a concerning number of cases among the population since the beginning of December. As of Friday, the city reported that a cumulative total of 192 cases have been detected among homeless people and 82 among staff.
“We have massive action plans to control the situation; we’re doing screening in different community organizations and shelters,” public health director Dr. Mylène Drouin said on Friday.
Drouin said 13 environments involving the homeless have had outbreaks so far, including such places as shelters, warming centres and community organizations. Eight of them are currently dealing with active cases.
“The issue and complexity with the management of these outbreaks is obviously the mobility of the people,” Drouin said. “If they’re in a shelter one night, they could be in a day centre during the day, a warming centre, so we have a lot of mobility.”
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