There isn’t much support for Premier Doug Ford’s assertion that should the north re-open first a surge of new cases would come from the south.
In an interview with Acadia News, Premier Ford said that as soon as the region would reopen people from hotspots like the Toronto area would come north and spark another outbreak.
Data from the Northwestern Health Unit, however, says otherwise.
In each of the past two weeks, only five per-cent of COVID-19 cases were the result of travel, and a health unit epidemiologist tells us that a new case from someone who doesn’t live in the region but tests positive while here is relatively infrequent.
The other side of the coin is the fact that to get from Toronto to Thunder Bay, you’d have to drive around 15 hours each way or pay around $300 in return airfare.
The Premier’s office declined to respond directly when asked for comment.