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.