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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) When the coronavirus pandemic began last year, Carolina Tolladay Vidal’s pinata business in Alaska went to pieces and not in a good way for a pinata maker.
“Many of the projects I had were moved to other dates,” she told Alaska Public Media. “Many were canceled.”
Tolladay Vidal had to find fresh ideas to rejuvenate her business and settled on making large, coronavirus shaped pinatas.
Coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa detected in Southcentral Alaska
Print article Alaska health officials have reported a Southcentral Alaska case of a coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa. The case was first identified in March in the region that includes Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, according to a report from a consortium of state and university health officials dated Tuesday. The report did not provide case details such as how the person got the virus or whether others may have been exposed, according to Alaska Public Media. The person did not have a history of travel, Louisa Castrodale, an epidemiologist for the state, said during a public call on Wednesday.
Report details new coronavirus variant cases in Alaska
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 7, 2021 at 1:28 pm EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Health officials have reported a case of a coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa in south-central Alaska.
The Alaska case was reported as first identified in March in the region that includes Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, according to a report from a consortium of state and university health officials dated Tuesday.
The report did not provide case details such as how the person got the virus or whether others may have been exposed, according to Alaska Public Media.
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