July 16, 2020 ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) has confirmed the first positive COVID-19 case in an employee at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API). Leadership at API was informed of the positive case yesterday afternoon and immediately began notifying staff and contractors that do business at the facility […]
DHSS Thursday announced 75 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska. 65 are residents in 15 communities: Anchorage (23), Fairbanks (17), North Pole (6), Soldotna (4), Kenai (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2), and one each in Chugiak, Haines, Kotzebue, Nikiski, Kenai Peninsula Borough South, Seward, Sterling and Wasilla. 10 new nonresidents […]
ANCHORAGE — The State Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed a death in Alaska to be consistent with paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). The individual who died had underlying health conditions that contributed to the death; however, the primary cause of death was determined to be paralytic shellfish toxin exposure. This is the first known […]
DHSS today announced 57 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska. 53 are residents in 12 communities: Anchorage (31), Fairbanks (6), Eagle River (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (3), Ketchikan (2), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2), Wasilla (2), Juneau (1), Kodiak Island Borough (1), Kusilvak Census Area (1) and Willow (1). 4 new nonresidents were also identified […]