Anchorage making pandemic business, gathering rules advisory
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska The Anchorage Assembly has voted to revoke pandemic-related restrictions on businesses and gatherings and to make them recommendations instead.
The changes take effect Monday and were approved unanimously despite concerns raised by the municipality’s health department director.
A local mask mandate remains in effect.
Assembly member Christopher Constant, who sponsored the motion to revoke gathering limits and business requirements, said the purpose was to send a message “that we recognize it’s time to do what we’ve heard from a number of people, which is trust the people to do the right thing.”
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ANCHORAGE (AP) â Alaska health officials have asked people who prematurely signed up for vaccine appointments to cancel them.
About 500 people in Anchorage who registered by Saturday to receive vaccines at the city s mass vaccination site in the Alaska Airlines Center were ineligible because of their age or occupation, Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.
State officials said they are primarily focused on vaccinating older adults over the next month.
More than 1,600 vaccine appointment slots were still available Saturday.
Under Alaska s tiered vaccination distribution system, those who are eligible for February include long-term care staff and residents, frontline health care workers and residents ages 65 and older.
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Alaska asks hundreds to cancel vaccination appointments
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 10:14 am EDT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Alaska health officials have asked people who prematurely signed up for vaccine appointments to cancel them.
About 500 people in Anchorage who registered by Saturday to receive vaccines at the city’s mass vaccination site in the Alaska Airlines Center were ineligible because of their age or occupation, Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday.
State officials said they are primarily focused on vaccinating older adults over the next month.
More than 1,600 vaccine appointment slots were still available Saturday.
Under Alaska’s tiered vaccination distribution system, those who are eligible for February include long-term care staff and residents, frontline health care workers and residents ages 65 and older.