Ketchikan City Council to consider extending local emergency declaration through August 1
Posted by Eric Stone | Jun 2, 2021
A view of Downtown Ketchikan near the intersection of Dock Street and Front Street in 2017. (KRBD file photo)
Ketchikan’s City Council will consider a one-month extension of its COVID-19 emergency declaration at its next meeting Thursday.
The community’s existing declaration is set to expire July 1; the proposal would push that date out to August 1. The declaration gives the city manager broad authority to use city resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Notably absent from the agenda, though, is a proposal to shutter or withdraw the city’s support for the Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center. The EOC, as it’s known, is responsible for coordinating the local pandemic response and is a joint operation of Ketchikan’s city and borough governments, along with officials from the city of Saxman.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â Ketchikan broke three pandemic records on Thursday, recording a record-high case count of 20 infections, marking an all-time high of 102 active cases and reaching a 5.24% local test positivity rate.
Thursdayâs case count reflected 20 cases recorded that day and one that was uncounted on Wednesday, according to a Thursday evening press release from the Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center.
âThere are 21 new cases of COVID-19 since our last update: one was reported last night after the media release, and 20 were reported today,â the EOC release stated. âOf the 21, one case was related to recent travel; eight of the cases were determined to be close contacts to a known positive, and 12 are under investigation.â
20 COVID-19 cases linked to Alaska wrestling tournament
by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 7, 2021 at 6:27 pm EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska A COVID-19 outbreak at a high school wrestling tournament held in April is linked to more than 20 infections in five communities across southeast Alaska, according to health officials.
Ketchikan High School hosted the regional wrestling tournament, an annual event that this year attracted athletes from seven different schools, Anchorage Daily News reported.
Officials from the regional school activities association issued a warning to the school last week on accusations of failing to test competitors and enforce mask orders at the event as is required by the region’s mitigation policies.
May 07, 2021 - 4:04 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A COVID-19 outbreak at a high school wrestling tournament held in April is linked to more than 20 infections in five communities across southeast Alaska, according to health officials.
Ketchikan High School hosted the regional wrestling tournament, an annual event that this year attracted athletes from seven different schools, Anchorage Daily News reported.
Officials from the regional school activities association issued a warning to the school last week on accusations of failing to test competitors and enforce mask orders at the event as is required by the regionâs mitigation policies.
By Thursday, at least 11 students, two staff members and five other residents in the surrounding community tested positive for COVID-19 as part of the school outbreak. Contact tracing showed that at least five people who attended the wrestling tournament were infected with the virus at the time, according to Kacie Paxton, spokesperson
Outbreak tied to Ketchikan wrestling tournament involves over 20 cases across 5 Southeast communities
Print article A COVID-19 outbreak associated with a high school regional wrestling tournament held in Ketchikan in late April has now been linked to more than 20 coronavirus cases in five Southeast communities, health officials said this week. The tournament, which attracted athletes from seven schools around Southeast Alaska, was hosted by Ketchikan High School. Officials from Region 5, which represents Alaska School Activities Association schools in the area, issued a warning to Ketchikan High School for allegedly failing to test wrestlers or enforce mask wearing at the event both of which are required under the region’s mitigation policies.