Considering the recent rise in COVID-19 cases in the MRC d’Avignon, which is classified at the early warning level, the New Brunswick government has chosen to tighten access to its territory.
Since 1is August, all Avignon residents could make day trips to New Brunswick.
As of Friday noon, this access will be limited to residents of Pointe-à-la-Croix as well as to members of the Listuguj First Nation, who have not left their community for at least 14 days.
Thus, if the residents of Pointe-à-la-Croix and Listuguj go to Carleton-sur-Mer, for example, they will have to respect a quarantine of 14 days before being able to travel to New Brunswick again.
What we wanted to offer citizens is to have the option. If we want to go to New Brunswick, we can go, but we will have to respect the micro-bubble that is Pointe-à-la-Croix and Listuguj. On the other hand, if people still want to go to Carleton, Amqui or elsewhere in Quebec, they can do so, but they will not be able to go to New Brunswick.
, specifies the mayor of Pointe-à-la-Croix, Pascal Bujold.
The mayor is delighted with this decision and explains that it was the New Brunswick government that approached the two Gaspé communities about this accommodation.
<q data-attributes="{"lang":{"value":"fr","label":"Français"},"value":{"html":"La récente augmentation du nombre de cas confirmés et le changement du niveau d’alerte dans laMRC d’Avignon have pushed us to make this decision “,” text “:” The recent increase in the number of confirmed cases and the change in the alert level in the MRC d’Avignon prompted us to make this decision “}}” lang = “fr”>The recent increase in the number of confirmed cases and the change in the alert level in the MRC d’Avignon pushed us to make this decisionNew Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
Since there is no confirmed case [de COVID-19] in Listuguj First Nation nor in Pointe-à-la-Croix
, the restriction of movement at the border does not concern these two communities, added the Prime Minister.
Mr. Bujold is nonetheless concerned about the increase in COVID-19 cases in the region.
It announces that we will perhaps have to tell people to stay at home, limit travel. It is a step backwards. We will have to come back to the same vocabulary we had last spring, social distancing and all that
, he emphasizes.
We’ll have to be really careful because if it’s in the community, you never know when it can affect us.
People who live in other communities in the MRC d’Avignon will no longer be allowed to cross the border for non-essential reasons.
Travel related to work, medical appointments or childcare, however, is still permitted.
With information from Pierre Cotton
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