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.