There was a steady stream of people coming to be tested for COVID-19 at the new mobile screen centre in Pierrefonds on Thursday.
Nurses at the pop-up clinic can test more than 200 people a day. Officials hope to bring more than 600 people through the facility by Saturday.
The STM bus turned makeshift testing centre is parked at the corner of Alexander and Logan streets in the Cloverdale neighbourhood — an area described as a “hot zone” where there is a high concentration of COVID-19-positive residents. “We try to reach out to those people because they probably have contact with other people who have it.
To try and get them tested, to try and decrease the hot spot and eventually make it a green zone,” Dalia Toledano, associate director of