Ketchikan cuts pandemic risk level to ‘moderate’
No new cases of COVID-19 were reported Friday, but one person is hospitalized with the disease in Ketchikan, according to the community’s dashboard.
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Ketchikan’s pandemic risk level raised to ‘very high’ for first time amid COVID-19 surge
Officials are asking residents to slow the spread of COVID-19, asking restaurants, bars, personal services and gyms to close and encouraging telework in other settings. But the emergency officials note that each organization “must evaluate these recommendations against the anticipated impacts on operations and decide on appropriate actions to take.”
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Ketchikan raises pandemic risk level, closes high school after rise in COVID-19 cases
Ketchikan emergency officials are sounding the alarm about growing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the community. Local officials raised Ketchikan’s community risk level to “high” Tuesday evening, the second-highest level. They’re urging residents to stay home as much as possible, limit their interactions and wear a mask when outside the home.
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With Ketchikan pandemic risk down to ‘moderate,’ secondary students to return to classrooms full-time Monday
Ketchikan’s secondary students are set to return to full-capacity classrooms Monday.
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Ketchikan officials downgrade local pandemic risk to lowest level
None of the area’s recent cases have been linked to community spread, indicating that testing and tracing efforts are finding success.
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With COVID-19 cases falling, Ketchikan reduces local pandemic risk level to ‘moderate’
Ketchikan’s emergency manager points to one factor in particular that helped turn the tide: rapid, high-volume testing.
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No new restrictions in store for Ketchikan despite governor’s call to slow the spread of COVID-19
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we’re on the other side of it,” Ketchikan’s top pandemic response official said of an outbreak that began Oct. 26.
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