The day after the community’s COVID risk level was lowered from high to moderate, Juneau’s COVID trend line continues to point down, officials said.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t look like we are going to see a holiday bump,” said City and Borough Deputy City Manager Mila Cosgrove, who is also the Emergency Operations Center incident commander, during a weekly COVID-19 briefing.<\/p>\n
“We are about a week away from declaring victory there,” she added.<\/p>\n
City relaxes health restrictions as COVID risk declines<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n Overall, Juneau’s seven-day rolling positivity rate was 0.13% as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n “It’s incredible that our case count has dropped. It’s awesome that we could have in-person school this week and ease restrictions on local businesses. We are helping each other see each other through this time,” Cosgrove said.<\/p>\n In addition to schools re-opening, the low infection rates mean that several city services, including libraries, the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, the Permit Center, Juneau pools, the Treadwell Ice Arena and the Zach Gordon Youth Center, are able to increase their service levels and capacity limits.<\/p>\n “Your actions affect the ability of kids to stay in school. Next week we welcome the Legislature,” said CBJ city manager Rorie Watt.<\/p>\n Vaccine rollout<\/strong><\/p>\n City officials said that Juneau has about 26,000 residents who are over age 16 and eligible to get a vaccine.<\/p>\n “We should be through about 10% of the population by this weekend,” Cosgrove said, citing already-scheduled vaccine events.<\/p>\n Vaccine slots filled within minutes—followed by uncertainty<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n Watt and Cosgrove thanked the community for continued vigilance.<\/p>\n “Working on the vaccine problem is a big improvement over where we were a few months ago,” Watt said.<\/p>\n “We have signs of progress. But we need more patience. We aren’t done yet,” he added.<\/p>\n Contact Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4891.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The big decrease in infections means more city services are now available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":66720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[703],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-66719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66719"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}