Keeping their social distance, heavily monitored by security, hundreds lined up to get tested for COVID-19 as the new downtown Montreal walk-in clinic opened to the public on Monday.
Located in the heart of the city’s Quartier des spectacles on Jeanne-Mance street, people wearing masks arrived by car and by foot to the new testing site.
The new open air clinic will see more than double the capacity of its predecessor, according to the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Ile-de-Montreal.
It has replaced the current “by-appointment” clinic at Hotel-Dieu hospital, which closed Sunday. The new centre is expected to significantly boost the number of tests performed on the island of Montreal.