All homeless shelters in Halifax and those in the province of Nova Scotia will be targeted for coronavirus testing, health officials say.
Officials announced last week that a test of a resident at a pop-up homeless shelter in Halifax came back positive last week and all residents and staff were forced to self-isolate.
To help track the spread of the virus and to keep the vulnerable homeless population safe, the North End Community Health Centre’s mobile outreach van has now been turned into a mobile coronavirus testing unit.
The mobile unit and health team are touring shelters in Halifax and testing all residents. “Anything that we can do in our clinic upstairs we can do in this van,” said Marie-France LeBlanc, executive director of the