Ketchikan pandemic officials call on patrons of five local bars to quarantine and get tested
Posted by Eric Stone | Jan 29, 2021
Ketchikan pandemic response officials are calling out local bars they say are linked to recent COVID-19 cases. And some business owners aren’t happy.
Pat Tully is with the Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center.
“So in this past week, there have been 10 cases of COVID-19 in Ketchikan, and four of those were determined to be community transmission,” Tully said in a phone interview.
That’s when Public Health can’t trace its source. It implies that are COVID-19 positive people that are actively spreading and aren’t aware they’re a risk, and the four recent community spread cases led officials to bump the community’s risk level from “low” to “moderate” on Thursday.
AK slated for 59K vax doses in Feb
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Alaska entered its second phase (Phase 1b) of coronavirus vaccine distribution on Wednesday, allowing Alaskans aged 65 years or older to begin making appointments for vaccinations that will become available starting Monday.
Individuals in that age bracket are considered to be part of Tier 1 of Phase 1b, and became eligible to schedule appointments at noon on Wednesday.
But by about 12:25 p.m. Wednesday, no appointments for COVID-19 vaccination remained available.
Tessa Walker Linderman of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services said in a late Wednesday afternoon media briefing that the lack of appointments was not an issue of the DHSS scheduling website being overrun, but the number of people trying to book appointments outnumbered the available vaccine providers at that time.