DHSS also announced two other Alaska cases, one for Anchorage and one for Wasilla.
The platform would be purchased for no more than $400,000, with expected delivery in four to six months.
The state’s chief medical officer also addressed a surge of cases on the Kenai Peninsula.
The extension would be set to end Sept. 19.
Regents to meet next week.
Additional COVID-19 cases announced in Soldotna and in a nonresident visitor to the peninsula
4 of the new cases are on the southern peninsula, and Nikiski has its first case
Salmonfest director confident next year’s festival will go ahead as planned.
The Arctic Slope Native Association reported the first positive case in the North Slope region.
“If the quarantine doesn’t come off pretty soon, I think we’ll just be out of luck this year.”
The 10th running of the event this year would have been June 14.
The state also reported two additional resident cases and two additional nonresident cases.
Ban will stay in effect on the peninsula due to recreational traffic associated with fishing season.
The survey was released on May 20 and will be open through May 31.
One resident and two workers employed by a seafood processor in the borough tested positive.
The refrigerated box truck will distribute food around the peninsula.
Another nonresident case in Alaska was identified Friday in a seafood industry worker.
Alaska had 42,200 fewer jobs in April than a year earlier.
That brings the total Alaska case count to 404.
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