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More calls to 811, long lines after officials tell Montreal bargoers to test for COVID-19
COVID-19.“In order to get in front of it, we wanted to send out a call to the whole population rather than go bar by bar or situation by situation,” Montreal Public Health doctor David Kaiser said in an interview with Global News on Sunday.Sunday morning, it seemed like a lot of people got the message. The walk-in testing clinic at the Hotel Dieu Hospital had a long lineup that wrapped around the building, though Kaiser said officials hadn’t received any word testing facilities were being overwhelmed.He also said there had been an increase in calls to the 811 Info-Santé hotline.“I think that is a good thing.