A health-care worker gets a swab ready at a temporary COVID-19 test clinic in Montreal, on Friday, May 15, 2020. Doctors in New Brunswick urged people in the Edmundston region to follow COVID-19 guidelines, get tested and to stay home if they are feeling ill. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
EDMUNDSTON, N.B. - New Brunswick reported two more deaths attributed to COVID-19 on Wednesday, including one in the Edmundston region where doctors are trying to convince the local population to take the pandemic more seriously.
The hard-hit area in northwestern New Brunswick has been under a 14-day lockdown since Sunday and has nearly half of the province's 327 active reported COVID-19 infections.