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Eleven people from the Downtown Mission walked to the aquatic centre Wednesday morning to take COVID-19 tests and try to secure accommodations, as the city threatened to shut down what it has been referring to as a rogue shelter.
Staff at the Windsor International and Aquatic Training centre conducted rapid COVID-19 tests on 14 individuals Wednesday morning, according to Andrew Teliszewsky, Mayor Drew Dilken’s chief of staff.
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Five people who had stayed at the mission’s emergency shelter in the former library building on Ouellette Avenue tested positive.
The Downtown Mission is defying a public health order and putting its staff and vulnerable population at risk by reopening a “rogue” shelter at the former…