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 The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center announced six new positive novel coronavirus test results on Tuesday, and for the first time in more than two weeks, no individuals were hospitalized in the COVID-19 unit at PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center.
âOne case was reported after the press release on (Friday), and five were reported today,â according to a Tuesday evening press release from the EOC. âOf the six cases, one was determined to be community spread, and five are under investigation.â
One of the new cases involved an individual who was not vaccinated but was eligible to be vaccinated, and one involved someone who was not eligible to be vaccinated, while four of the cases involved individuals whose vaccination status was unknown by Tuesday evening, according to the EOC dashboard.
With the end of the school year less than a month away, Ketchikan Theatre Ballet dancers and Schoenbar Middle School band and choir members were preparing for live performances.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center on Friday counted six new positive COVID-19 test results as the number of active cases in the community dropped to 76, according to an evening press release. Three individuals were determined to be close contacts to known positive cases, one case was related to a congregate setting facility, and two of the cases remain under investigation, the EOC statement read.
According to the EOC dashboard on Friday, three virus cases have been connected to a congregate setting facility in the past seven days. Of the pending cases from May 20, one was determined to be a close contact, three were determined to be community spread, and one remains under investigation, the release noted.
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