{"id":68000,"date":"2021-02-21T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/governor-quarantines-following-close-contact\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:43:50","slug":"governor-quarantines-following-close-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/governor-quarantines-following-close-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor quarantines following close contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mike Dunleavy is in quarantine following close contact on Saturday with a person who recently tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy was informed of the close contact on Sunday, the governor&rsquo;s office said in a news release, and a rapid test result Monday morning was negative. Dunleavy continues to show no symptoms of the disease. The person who tested positive for COVID-19 who had close contact with Dunleavy was not identified.<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy will be self-quarantining at his home in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley for a minimum of seven days, per procedures laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, according to the governor&rsquo;s office.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/dunleavy-says-reinbold-misrepresents-virus-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dunleavy says Reinbold misrepresents virus response<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Like so many other Alaskans who have experienced a close contact, he will continue to fulfill his duties by teleworking from home and receive additional tests until it is certain he is free of the virus,&rdquo; the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy spokesperson Jeff Turner was unable to provide any additional details but said no government operations would be impacted.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Peter Segall at psegall@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @SegallJnuEmpire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mike Dunleavy is in quarantine following close contact on Saturday with a person who recently tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":68001,"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":[703,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-68000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68000","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\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68000"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}