ST. JOHN S, N.L. On Sunday night, before the tiny town of Harbour Breton on Newfoundland s south coast asked businesses to temporarily close following a few confirmed cases of COVID-19, Mayor Georgina Ollerhead got a call from the mayor of Deer Lake, about 430 kilometres away. Deer Lake Mayor Dean Ball was calling to offer support and a few pro tips. He d had to shut down his town a few weeks earlier as a cluster of cases emerged, and he knew it wasn t easy to ask businesses to close and people to stay calm in the face of a pandemic.
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