The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting 14 new individuals with COVID-19 in Juneau – 13 are residents and one is a nonresident. These cases came in December 19-21. Public Health is attributing seven resident cases to secondary transmission, one to community spread, two to out-of-state …
The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly made three appointments to the Planning Commission on Thursday, December 17, at a Special Assembly Meeting. The Assembly appointed new member Mandy Cole and reappointed Paul Voelckers and Michael LeVine. All three members will serve two-year terms beginning on January 1, 2021. The …
People in Juneau are still required to wear a mask or face covering over their nose and mouth when they are indoors in public settings or communal spaces outside the home. The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly on Monday passed an emergency ordinance extending the requirement originally set to …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting three new residents with COVID-19 – one is currently out of state and the two others are in Juneau. Public Health is attributing the out-of-state case to travel and the other two are under investigation. Cumulatively, Juneau has had 897 …
Juneau’s first shipment of 975 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived Tuesday, December 15, and is currently in the process of being administered. Because initial vaccine supply is limited, vaccine is first available to hospital-based front-line healthcare workers at highest risk for COVID-19 infection, long-term care facility residents and staff, EMS/fire …
Over the 14-day period from November 30 to December 13, there were 74 people in Juneau who tested positive for COVID-19 (that’s down from 94 during the previous two weeks): Nine percent of the case activity was associated with one ongoing cluster during this time period. A small church had a …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting five new individuals with COVID-19 in Juneau – four are residents and one is a nonresident. Public Health is attributing one of the resident cases to community spread, one to secondary transmission, and two are under investigation. The nonresident …
Hospital-based frontline health care workers were the Alaskans to receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine yesterday. Vaccination clinics began in some communities on Tuesday and are continuing today. Distribution and delivery of the December allocation of 31,500 doses of Pfizer vaccine is also continuing today to the six hospitals …
The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly made three appointments to the Bartlett Regional Hospital Board on Tuesday, December 15, at a Special Assembly Meeting. The Assembly appointed new members Rosemary Hagevig and Kenneth Solomon-Gross and reappointed Brenda Knapp. All three members will serve two-year terms beginning on January 1, …
Capital Transit’s first electric bus from Proterra arrived in Juneau by barge today. The City and Borough of Juneau expects it’ll be ready for the public to ride in February. This will be the first public transit electric bus owned by a transit agency in the state of Alaska. In …
