In Fairbanks, you can now get a Covid-19 vaccine while going to the movies, walking by the J.P. Jones Center and maybe while attending a hockey game.
Upcoming pop-up vaccination clinics are part of the Sleeves Up for Summer campaign, launched by the state and local governments to increase Alaskaâs Covid-19 vaccinations. To protect Alaskans from the virus and keep the state up and running before summer rolls in, the goal is to cover 25% more people in May â which means vaccinating 18,000 additional residents in the Interior.Â
âWe are looking at new different ways to get information and vaccinations out to people,â said Dr. Mark Simon, an emergency physician at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â Ketchikan on Wednesday set a new record for the highest single-day case total for 2021 thus far, with 13 cases counted by the local Emergency Operations Center.
âTwo cases were determined to be community spread; one case was related to recent travel; one case was determined to be close contact to a known positive; and nine remain under investigation,â according to a Wednesday evening EOC press release.
Of the cases that were pending EOC investigation after being recorded on Tuesday, six were found to be due to close contact with a known positive, one was determined to be community spread and one was still being investigated as of Wednesday.
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CARIBOU, Maine Caribou Public Library Director Hope Shafer will be leaving for Alaska to be with her husband in August of this year. (Courtesy of Liza Guerrette)
CARIBOU, Maine Caribou Public Library Director Hope Shafer will be leaving for Alaska to be with her husband in August of this year. (Courtesy of Liza Guerrette)
Caribou Library director resigns for move to Alaska this summer Caribou Library Director Hope Shafer recently announced her resignation and plans to relocate to Alaska with her husband, who moved there after accepting a nursing informatics position at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital in late March.
Two firefighters from the Fairbanks Fire Department received minor injuries during Monday s warehouse fire in South Fairbanks. The firefighters were treated at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and are expected to recover quickly, according to a Tuesday news release from the city of Fairbanks. Besides the two firefighters, no one was hurt. The firefighters are feeling OK, and the chief expects them back to work in a week, Teal Soden, communications director for the city, wrote in an email to the News-Miner.Â
The fire started at C&R Pipe and Steel on Alta Way at approximately 3.30 p.m. Monday. Emergency crews responded within 6 minutes, put the fire out by approximately 7:54 p.m., and stayed on scene to take care of hot spots until 10:22 p.m.
Covid-19: Delhi Court Rebukes Indian Government Over Oxygen Crisis
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In voting shadowed by a catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases, the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost a key state election. International aid has begun flowing into the country.
Oxygen cylinders outside a shop in South Delhi. A court said it would start punishing government officials for failing to deliver oxygen.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
A severe shortage of medical oxygen in New Delhi, the center of power in India, has left people gasping for their final breaths in their hospital beds, a sign of government futility in its fight against a crushing Covid wave.