[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]According to the Welcome Hall Mission, 714 homeless Montrealers have been tested and 21 have contracted the disease.Coronavirus: Montreal announces measures to protect city’s homeless amid pandemicStrong physical distancing measures are enforced at Montreal’s two major shelters, the Old Brewery Mission and Welcome Hall.
As well, both are limiting the number of people they’ll accept inside their shelters and the body temperatures are taken of everyone who is admitted.“If there’s any that have a temperature in the problem zone then we will send them to be tested.