Ketchikan emergency officials raised the community’s pandemic alert level to “moderate” after reporting five new positive cases of COVID-19 Wednesday. Officials say they think the area’s eight active cases are linked, but Ketchikan’s head of pandemic response says he believes the outbreak has been contained.
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Ketchikan’s local and state pandemic alert levels remain low — a stark contrast to other areas of the state.
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It’s the first COVID-19 case announced in a district employee since staff returned to schools.
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Ketchikan’s pandemic risk ticked up from “low” to “moderate” Friday after state authorities classified three recent COVID-19 infections as cases of “community transmission.”
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KIC has closed its health clinic, including its dental practice, through Wednesday for disinfection.
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“Quarantines work,” said Ketchikan’s top pandemic response official, Abner Hoage.
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“If we see this continue to climb, as we have this week — if that were to continue into next week, you will find me going to the mayors and asking them to declare an emergency again, potentially where we’re asking people to hunker down, and I don’t want to get to that point,” Hoage told KRBD in a phone interview Thursday.
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The district’s back-to-school plan is not listed as an action item on the meeting’s agenda, though board members are scheduled to discuss holding a town hall meeting later this month.
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