Thank you to everyone who tuned in to Tuesday’s COVID-19 Community Update. In case you missed it, staff with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) joined members of the City and Borough of Juneau’s Emergency Operations Center to give a presentation and help answer questions from the …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center reports 27 new individuals – 22 residents and five nonresidents – identified with COVID-19 for August 19. CBJ also reports one new death in Juneau. The individual – a male Juneau resident in his 50s – died at Bartlett Regional Hospital …
The City and Borough of Juneau is holding a press conference this Friday, August 20, at 9 a.m. to talk about the community’s COVID-19 risk level elevating to High. Join the press conference on Zoom https://juneau.zoom.us/j/95579219941 or call 1-253-215-8782 with Webinar ID: 955 7921 9941. CBJ Emergency Operations Center Incident …
Juneau residents have until September 1 to comment on whether the City and Borough of Juneau should grant a permanent easement across a 0.14-acre public Beach Access in Auke Bay to allow an adjacent property owner to build a new driveway. Submit comments here until 4:30 p.m. September 1. The …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center reports 32 new individuals – 30 residents and two nonresidents – identified with COVID-19 in Juneau for August 18. How the individuals acquired the virus is under investigation. The cluster associated with an out-of-town youth sports event remains at 22 cases …
Due to increasing case positivity, the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is raising the overall community risk to Level 3 High with a full implementation of the COVID-19 Community Mitigation Strategies. Since July 30, CBJ has been at a Modified-High Level 3 risk level with only the required masking strategy …
Over the 14-day period from August 2 to August 15, there were 204 people in the Juneau community who tested positive for COVID-19 (that’s up from 138 during the previous two weeks): 8 percent of the cases were associated with a cluster involving an out-of-town youth sports event. To date, …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center reports 34 new individuals – 31 residents and 3 nonresidents – identified with COVID-19 for August 17. Of the resident cases, Public Health attributes 13 to secondary transmission, three to community spread, and 15 are under investigation. One of the resident …
Alaska Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink, plus others from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, will be at Tuesday’s COVID-19 Community Update at 4 p.m. They will be joining members of the City and Borough of Juneau’s Emergency Operations Center. The state team will give a short …
An ongoing pandemic doesn’t detract from Bartlett Regional Hospital’s highest priority: the wellbeing and safety of its patients. BRH takes the most protective possible measures to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. All patients, visitors, and staff must wear masks covering their nose and mouth, and use hand sanitizer …
