As COVID emergency expires, Alaska’s border screening becomes optional Published February 14
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Print article JUNEAU Alaska’s mandatory border screenings for COVID-19 turned optional Sunday as a statewide COVID-19 emergency expired at midnight. Gov. Mike Dunleavy said the airport action is the biggest obvious change caused by the end of the emergency, but the state expects to find new implications over the next couple of weeks. One issue discovered just last week: The end of the emergency means losing a third of the state’s $23 million monthly food stamp aid from the federal government. Alaska has been operating under a state of emergency since March 2020 and now becomes the only state other than Michigan to lack a statewide COVID-19 emergency, according to the National Governors Association. In Michigan, local officials and the state’s health commissioner have issued separate declarations of emergency to fill the gap, but much of Alaska lacks
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ANCHORAGE (AP) â Alaska health officials have asked people who prematurely signed up for vaccine appointments to cancel them.
About 500 people in Anchorage who registered by Saturday to receive vaccines at the city s mass vaccination site in the Alaska Airlines Center were ineligible because of their age or occupation, Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.
State officials said they are primarily focused on vaccinating older adults over the next month.
More than 1,600 vaccine appointment slots were still available Saturday.
Under Alaska s tiered vaccination distribution system, those who are eligible for February include long-term care staff and residents, frontline health care workers and residents ages 65 and older.
Alaska asks hundreds to cancel vaccination appointments
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 10:14 am EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Alaska health officials have asked people who prematurely signed up for vaccine appointments to cancel them.
About 500 people in Anchorage who registered by Saturday to receive vaccines at the city’s mass vaccination site in the Alaska Airlines Center were ineligible because of their age or occupation, Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.
State officials said they are primarily focused on vaccinating older adults over the next month.
More than 1,600 vaccine appointment slots were still available Saturday.
Under Alaska’s tiered vaccination distribution system, those who are eligible for February include long-term care staff and residents, frontline health care workers and residents ages 65 and older.