Tag: coronavirus
COVID-19 spreading quickly in Alaska, with 46 new cases reported over the weekend
According to modeling the state is using, the rate that Alaskans are transmitting the virus is now the second highest in the nation.
Airline passenger brings first case of COVID-19 to Southeast town of Gustavus
The person is not an Alaska resident and appears to be asymptomatic. They are currently in self-quarantine.
Anchorage officials are “hyper-vigilant” after COVID spike, but no new restrictions are planned
After another Anchorage resident died of coronavirus at an extended care facility, Anchorage officials say that they are a lot more concerned this week than last week.
Health officials worry Alaskans have ‘coronavirus fatigue’ as active cases reach new high
Public health officials say they worry that some residents have developed fatigue about the contagious disease and are not social distancing or taking other precautions.
Alaska health workers seek mask rule for crowded businesses
Recent medical studies and real-world evidence support the use of masks to prevent the spread of the virus, the letter said.
LISTEN: April’s job losses were huge — how long will they last?
But, unlike other periods of significant job loss in Alaska’s history, this one may be short lived.
Thursday update: Alaska has the highest number of active COVID-19 cases since the pandemic started
With 24 new cases reported on Thursday, Alaska has more active cases than it ever has, though hospital and ventilator capacity has also increased.
State offering rent and mortgage relief for Alaskans struggling during COVID-19 pandemic
In an effort to keep Alaskans in their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state housing authority is offering assistance with mortgage and rent payments.
As COVID-19 spikes in Alaska, Kenai Peninsula emerges as virus hotspot
COVID-19 has spread quickly in recent weeks on the Kenai Peninsula, which now has 62 active cases and a per capita infection rate that’s three times the one found in Anchorage, according to state data.
Site of Alaska’s largest COVID-19 outbreak begins third round of testing, as some patients grow worse
More than 40 of the center’s patients and caregivers have tested positive for COVID-19 so far. One of the patients has died.
After pandemic leads to shortage, animal rights groups send 8,000 pounds of dog food to rural Alaska
The food will be shipped to Bethel, from where it will be distributed around the region.
Sharp increase in hospitalizations as COVID case tally rises by 20
The number of people currently in the hospital with COVID-19 in Alaska nearly doubled between Monday and Tuesday.
COVID concerns thwart NOAA and other researchers’ plans to study a Bering Sea in flux
The regional tribal consortium in Nome is hoping researchers will cancel trips.
With uncertainty about how school will look in the fall, Anchorage parents turn to home school
Some parents are concerned about health, others are looking for educational certainty.
Patient at Anchorage transitional care center is Alaska’s latest coronavirus death
The Providence Transitional Care Center in East Anchorage is the site of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak.
King Cove confirms first local case of COVID-19 in seafood industry worker
Henry Mack, mayor of the 900-person town, said the individual is an employee at the huge Peter Pan Seafoods plant.
A Seattle fishing company has had more than 100 COVID-19 cases on its ships. They’re heading to Alaska this summer.
With Alaska's summer fishing season still gearing up, the industry has already been shaken by its first major outbreak. Last week, Seattle-based American Seafoods confirmed that 92 crew from its American Dynasty ship had tested positive for COVID-19 -- nearly three-fourths of 124 people onboard.
Juneau’s mayor Beth Weldon recovered from COVID-19 this week
During Monday evening’s city assembly meeting, Mayor Beth Weldon said she traveled to the Lower 48 to move her son out of his college dorm. When she came back, she started her 14-day quarantine, and then started to feel sick.
Monday coronavirus count: State reports 19 new cases; Providence outbreak continues
Also, the Southeast Alaska communities of Wrangell and Haines announced their first coronavirus cases.
For Gov. Dunleavy, COVID-19 evokes century-old family loss to the flu in rural Alaska
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy grew up in Pennsylvania. But his wife, Rose, is Inupiaq, raised in the Northwest Alaska village of Noorvik, and her mother once told Dunleavy a story that connects to the state’s traumatizing experience in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.