ANCHORAGE – An employee at a seafood processing plant in Seward tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday. OBI Seafoods, the operator of the plant, with support from the Seward Community Health Center, immediately began testing all 262 of the plant’s employees and implemented isolation protocols for its workforce in advance of contact tracing. The […]
DHSS Wednesday announced 94 new people with COVID-19 and one death in Alaska. 92 are residents in 15 communities: Anchorage (39), Valdez-Cordova Census Area (11), Fairbanks (9), Juneau (7), Wasilla (6), Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (3), Ketchikan (3), Eagle River (2), Kenai (2), Palmer (2), Sitka (2), one each in Chugiak, North Pole, Seward and […]
Two nonresident cases prior to July 20 (in Anchorage) have been confirmed and added, bringing the total number of nonresident cases to 484 and the total number of new people with COVID-19 to 111. DHSS today announced 111 new people with COVID-19 in Alaska. 92 are residents in 18 communities: Anchorage (64), Fairbanks (5), […]
VANCOUVER – Officials in Canada and the United States have agreed to keep the vast international border between the two countries closed for a least another month. Two recent surveys of Canadians indicate they overwhelmingly want that border to remain closed due to record high numbers of coronavirus infections in the U.S. In making […]