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How Bethel and other rural Alaska villages are preparing for COVID-19 | Alaska Insight

Dr. Elizabeth Bates runs through protocol with a YKHC employee at the COVID-19 drive-thru test site in Bethel.
Dr. Elizabeth Bates runs through protocol with a Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation employee at the COVID-19 drive-thru test site on March 25, 2020 in Bethel, Alaska. (Katie Basile/KYUK)

With the first case of COVID-19 confirmed in Southwest Alaska, state and tribal health officials are working to provide adequate supplies for medical staff and village health aides and ramping up testing capabilities in rural Alaska communities.

From Bethel, KYUK's Krysti Shallenberger has this story.

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