text: Prescott is located in eastern Ontario, directly across the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, N.Y., near the international crossing at Johnstown, Ont., and about 60 kilometres up Highway 401 from the Thousand Islands Bridge near Gananoque, Ont.
  The Canadian dollar has fallen below 70 cents US, which may be encouraging returning vacationers to wait until they cross the border to stop for supplies.
  "People aren't getting it. When you come back to the country, you've got to go straight into quarantine. There's no stopping on the way home, there's no provisioning. You've just got to keep yourself safe, keep others safe, go straight into that quarantine, for the good of all of us."
  Before the closure of the international border to non-essential traffic, Todd said there was "a big back and forth" of people from both countries.
  Don't stop at grocery stores on the way home. Don't stop at Walmart. Go home. - Prescott Mayor Brett Todd
  "[There's] a lot of family on both sides of the border, so people are visiting constantly. We'd have a lot of Americans coming over for Chinese food, and a lot of people from our side crossing for shopping."
  As of Sunday, New York State had more than 15,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, about half of all confirmed cases in the U.S., and 114 deaths. There are more than 1,000 confirmed cases in Florida, from which many of the Canadian snowbirds are returning.
  Paul Roumeliotis, medical officer of health with the Eastern Ontario Health Unit, says travellers returning from abroad must go straight home to self-isolate without stopping for food or medicine on the way. 0:51