Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A shipment of 975 doses of Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 will arrive on Tuesday.
Authorities are unsure of the exact time when the vaccine will arrive in Juneau as they not the winter weather and other logistical unknowns.
500 vaccines will be used at the hospital to vaccinate staff. The remainder goes to EMS, medical clinics, and to nursing home and elder care facilities.
Bartlett will also store the vaccine at the required -70 degree temperature until its use.
Bartlett Infection Preventionist Charlee Gribbon said she is thrilled by the arrival of this vaccine, We want our whole community of Bartlett protected because that helps us to be safe.
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A report released by Juneau Emergency Operations Center Friday says there have been six new cases of COVID-19.
State Public Health officials attribute four of them to secondary transmission, and one to community spread. The other remains under investigation.
The cluster associated with a small church remains at 13 cases Four are active and nine have recovered.
Juneau has had 866 residents test positive since March along with 113 nonresidents. There are currently 62 active cases. Nine hundred and twelve have recovered.
The release states that all individuals with active cases are in isolation. One person is hospitalized at Bartlett Regional Hospital.
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is making $2.8 million of federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding available to health care organizations that
Thursday brought another surge of new COVID-19 virus deaths and cases across the state and the Interior, adding pressure on hospitals and urgency for new emergency funding and treatments.
Five more Alaskans died from the virus Thursday, including a Fairbanks man in his 80s, according to the state Department of Health and Social Services. Across the state, 626 new people were identified with the virus, 100 of them in Fairbanks and 22 in North Pole.
Among other cities, Anchorage took the biggest blow, seeing 231 cases, while 45 cases were registered in Wasilla, 44 in Kodiak, 19 in Eagle River, 16 in Soldotna, 16 in Juneau, 14 in Bethel and 14 in Kenai.
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