KETCHIKAN (KDN) â Ketchikan on Wednesday set a new record for the highest single-day case total for 2021 thus far, with 13 cases counted by the local Emergency Operations Center.
âTwo cases were determined to be community spread; one case was related to recent travel; one case was determined to be close contact to a known positive; and nine remain under investigation,â according to a Wednesday evening EOC press release.
Of the cases that were pending EOC investigation after being recorded on Tuesday, six were found to be due to close contact with a known positive, one was determined to be community spread and one was still being investigated as of Wednesday.
Ketchikan Community Risk Level Raised to HIGH; Ketchikan High School Closed Through Friday, May 7th
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Ketchikan, Alaska - The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center and Ketchikan School District have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including an increase in community spread cases. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and 9 cases reported on Monday. Seven of those cases were determined to be close contacts to a known positive case, three were attributed to community spread, three were determined to be related to recent travel, and eight of the cases remain under investigation. In the past 10 days, there have been more than 10 positive cases attributed to staff or students of the Ketchikan High School.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â With several community risk indicators on the rise and 12 new virus cases counted on Tuesday, the EOC changed the Community Risk Level from Level 2 (Moderate) to Level 3 (High).
More than 10 cases of COVID-19 have been connected to Ketchikan High School in the past 10 days, prompting a closure of Kayhi and the cancellation of activities through Monday.
The change in the Community Risk Level was announced in a Tuesday evening joint release from the EOC and the Ketchikan School District. We have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including increase in community spread cases, the release read. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and nine cases reported on Monday.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center recorded two new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, one of which was found to be connected to a recent cluster of cases stemming from weekend events at Ketchikan High School, which prompted an extension of Kayhiâs in-person learning closure through the weekend.
âOne of the new cases remains under investigation and one of the cases is a close contact to a known positive case,â according to the joint media release from the EOC and the Ketchikan School District.
The release also stated that one of the cases was connected to Kayhi.
Kayhi was set to reopen for in-person learning on Thursday after being closed on Wednesday due to five cases linked to the school, but âthe complexity of the contact tracingâ for the cases led the building closure to be extended through Friday.
Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 26, 2021
Schoenbar Middle School. (KRBD file photo)
Ketchikan’s secondary students are set to return to full-capacity classrooms Monday. That’s after local emergency officials lowered the area’s COVID-19 risk level to “moderate”, citing a decline in the local positivity rate.
Middle and high school students in most Ketchikan schools had been attending only two days a week in person for most of February. That cut schools to about half their normal capacity, allowing students and staff more space to spread out and avoid spreading COVID-19.
The risk level was lowered Wednesday afternoon, but Acting Superintendent Katie Parrott told Ketchikan’s school board Thursday that students wouldn’t return to full-time classroom instruction until Monday.