NB resident here. Our population is less than that of a single NYC borough and widely scattered. We have no metropolitan areas and no big airports. Corona-chan, like most tourists to the Maritimes, basically stopped just long enough for a coffee and a donut at some place off the TCH before driving on through to Nova Scotia.
Jeez, Newfoundland got hit harder than us.
Not that we aren’t keeping our guard up, though.
We have no metropolitan areas and no big airports.>>>>>>>>>
Yes we do have metropolitan areas:
by population as of 2016:
1) Moncton 108,620
2) Saint John 58,341
3) Fredericton 59,405
( highest numbers in that Fredericton zone because of international travel by university students)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_population_centres_in_New_Brunswick
We have an excellent Public Helath tracing system that did yeomans worlk 7 days a week since the beginning of New Brunswick’s Declaration of Emergency. I know one personally and she is absolutely exhausted. Without them the infected people would not have gotten the treatment they needed at the earliest. And New Brunswick Doctors had the right therapy when they got to their physicians.
We are not a big province as you say , in terms of population or density f population but the spread was knocked down in all major population centers around the province.
Also, knock on wood, the stringent quarantine controls at Elder Care homes has prevented any infections in them,that is a huge accomplishment.
So we can begin to pat ourselves on the back, even if we are a very small province.
Nice to see another NB’er Freeper!
I’m in my 4th year living in NB. Compared to Toronto and environs it’s paradise.