Update | Wednesday 1:40 p.m.
About a dozen City and Borough of Juneau employees, who would normally be working in City Hall, are working from home this week after two of their coworkers tested positive for COVID-19.
Deputy City Manager Mila Cosgrove said they’ve been working with health consultants to track who the two borough workers may have come in contact with before they tested positive for the virus.
“They keep work logs and we’re very confident that no members of the public encountered those individuals,” she said during a community update meeting on Tuesday.
Cosgrove said the cases appear to be unrelated and that the two employees don’t appear to have caught the virus from each other.
Because it’s unclear which other employees may have been close contacts or have been exposed — Cosgrove said city officials decided to ask a group of people to telework for the week.
“Until we can make sure that there isn’t something going on that we’re not aware of,” she said. “We just wanted to make sure that we don’t inadvertently create a situation.”
Employees who are working from home have also been asked to get follow-up testing.
Original story
Juneau city officials are holding their weekly COVID-19 community update at 4 p.m. today. You can watch on this post, on the City and Borough of Juneau’s Facebook page or on Zoom. The public can submit questions in advance to CovidQuestions@juneau.org.
As of today, city officials know of 26 Juneau residents and two nonresidents with active COVID-19 cases, including one person at Bartlett Regional Hospital.
City emergency officials report administering 1,182 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine during its mass vaccination event this past weekend in Juneau. A follow-up clinic for the second dose will be held Feb. 5 through 7 at Centennial Hall.
Overall, about 11% of everyone in Juneau approved for emergency use of the vaccine has received at least the first dose.
Vaccine eligibility is limited mainly to people age 65 and up or frontline health care workers.
