COVID-19

Delta Temporarily Closes Library After Worker Reports Possible Exposure to Coronavirus

By • Jul 10, 2020
City of Delta Junction

Delta Junction city officials have temporarily closed the town’s library because one of the workers was in proximity to a person who later tested positive for COVID-19.


Two FNSB Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

By Robyne • Jul 9, 2020

The Fairbanks North Star Borough administration announced two employees have tested positive for COVID-19.


Fairbanks Children's Agency, Jail Have Positive COVID-19 Cases

By Robyne • Jul 9, 2020

A staff member at the Fairbanks branch of the State Office of Children’s Services and an inmate at the Fairbanks Correctional Center have tested positive for COVID-19.

 


Antibody Tests Still Unreliable

By Robyne • Jul 6, 2020

Many people infected with COVID-19 are asymptomatic and can pass the virus along to others without ever knowing they had it.

So how can someone who never showed symptoms find out if they had the virus?


07-06-20 KUAC MORNING NEWS

By • Jul 6, 2020

07-06-20 8:30 AM newscast


1,111 Alaska COVID-19 Cases. 16 Deaths. 544 Recovered.

By Robyne • Jul 4, 2020
Ellen Grover / Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

DHSS announced one death and 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Alaska for Friday, July 3. 48 are residents in 10 communities: Anchorage (32), Wasilla (4), Fairbanks (4), Willow (2), and one each in Bethel Census Area, Bristol Bay/Lake & Peninsula boroughs combined, Palmer, Petersburg, Soldotna, and Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area. The total number of Alaska cases is now 1,111. There have been 16 Alaska deaths.

Seven new nonresident cases were also identified in:

Health Department Hires More Contact Tracers

By Robyne • Jul 3, 2020

As COVID-19 cases rise, health officials expand contact tracing workforce and prioritize check-in calls to at-risk individuals

July 3, 2020— The Alaska Department of Health and Social and Services (DHSS) is working to expand Alaska’s public health contact tracing workforce to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. DHSS has roughly doubled the statewide contact tracing workforce since the COVID-19 response began and stands out among states as having one of the more intensive contact tracing programs.   

60 Documented COVID-19 Cases is Highest One-Day Count

By Robyne • Jul 3, 2020
Ellen Grover / Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

32 Fairbanks residents tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and Thursday.  

In this press release from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, 50 new cases of COVID-19 were announced for Wednesday, July 1 and 60 were recorded for Thursday, July 2. For those two days, 85 cases were Alaska residents, 25 were nonresident worker or visitors. 

One new death fom early June was recorded.

Return to School Plan Includes Distancing, Small Groups

By Robyne • Jul 2, 2020

Schools in Fairbanks and North Pole will look very different this fall. Students are expected to return to The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District classrooms on August 19th or 20th, according to a Return to School plan that is still evolving. It hinges on the number of coronavirus cases in the community.


Alaska Documented Cases Top 1,000, with 535 Recovered

By Robyne • Jul 2, 2020
Foundation Health Partners

Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services announced 50 new cases of COVID-19 that were recorded in Alaska on July 1.

39 were Alaska residents in 13 communities: Anchorage (13), Wasilla (9), Palmer (4), Seward (3), Tok (2), and one each in Big Lake, Chugiak, Kenai Peninsula North, Eagle River, Fairbanks, Kodiak, North Pole and Sitka. This brings the total number of Alaska cases to 1,017.

Eleven new nonresident cases were also identified in:

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