ON PARADE – Children dressed as their favorite animals hold a Sitka Spruce Tips 4-H Club banner as they march down Lincoln Street on Earth Day, Monday. The Parade of Species was held in recognition of Earth Day. It was hosted by Sitka Conservation Society, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Sitka Sound Science Center. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Sitka’s Virus Risk Level Goes Back Down to ‘Low’
By ARIADNE WILL
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Sitka COVID-19 alert level is now listed as “low” after weeks at the “moderate” level.
“We’ve been between ‘low’ and ‘moderate’ since we’ve come out of ‘high’ probably a dozen times,” Fire Chief Craig Warren said today. Warren is the incident commander for the city Emergency Operations Center on the pandemic.
The drop to the “low” alert level came the day before a new COVID-19 case was reported to the dashboard. The case — which was reported June 9 — is travel-related. The patient is a man in his 20s and was experiencing symptoms at the time of testing.
Contact tracing has been completed and the patient is currently isolating at home.
There were three active cases as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. The case reported Wednesday has not affected the city’s “low” COVID-19 risk level, and Warren said he believes that Sitka can “dip down into green” — fewer than three cases reported over a two-week period — this summer.
He said he wants to be able to tell people, “Look, we’re doing this well.”
“I don’t think our (case) numbers would be anywhere close to where they are if the vaccination rates were not what they are,” he said. “Vaccination is actually working. It’s getting us to where we want to be.”
Currently 70.17% of Sitkans age 12 and over — 5,182 people — are partially vaccinated, and 4,703 Sitkans — 63.68% of the eligible population — are fully vaccinated, according to the dashboard.
Free COVID vaccinations are still available for Sitkans not yet immunized. White’s Pharmacy will hold their regular clinic Friday at 10 a.m. at the fire hall. Appointments must be made, and can be scheduled at sitkapharmacies.com/covid19. Appointments for vaccination at SEARHC can be scheduled by visiting covid19searhc.org, or at Mountainside Family Medical Center.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Michael Stringer, environmental specialist for Sitka Tribe of Alaska and a founder of the community garden, takes the concept of Earth Week literally. This weekend he hopes others will share his appreciation for “earth” and things growing in it by joining him in preparing the community garden just behind Blatchley Middle School for another growing season.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
Classified ads Houses for Sale: Price dropped to $36,500 for 2-story, 4-bdrm. carpeted home on Cascade. Kitchen appliances, drapes, laundry room, carport, handy to schools.