Eight people have tested positive for COVID-19 so far and services are being forced to close their doors, halting the planned reopening of the province
In the area around Campbellton, the government reimposed restrictions that had just been lifted, forcing barbershops, spas and tattoo parlours to close their doors and individuals to retreat to bubbles of no more than two households.
More than 150 people may have been exposed, she said, some from outside the region where the doctor practised.Story continues below advertisement The Campbellton Regional Hospital has suspended the doctor, and the government has referred the case to the RCMP, which declined to comment Friday. The New Brunswick College of Physicians and Surgeons, a regulator with the power to discipline doctors, also declined to comment.
Campbellton, the epicentre of the new outbreak, is a city of roughly 7,000 people. Its proximity to Pointe-à-la-Croix, in Quebec, means that many people in the two communities work and have family on both sides of the provincial line.Since the pandemic started, a checkpoint has been in place at the main crossing, a bridge that spans the Restigouche River, allowing essential workers to cross back and forth, while other travellers from out of the province are required to isolate for 14 days.
New Brunswick, as with many small, largely rural provinces, relies on foreign-trained physicians to fill shortages, and she is concerned about what message this kind of rhetoric sends. “It’s so nasty,” she said. “It is not our place to be going there.”Still, the mayor said, this sends a clear message that summer visitors will have to stay away. “It’s a mayor’s worst nightmare to have to tell people not to come to their city in the summer. But that’s what I am saying.
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