{"id":68064,"date":"2021-02-23T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/dunleavy-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:36:14","slug":"dunleavy-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/dunleavy-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunleavy tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a developing story and will be updated soon.<\/em> <\/ins><\/p>\n

Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, the governor’s office announced.<\/p>\n

He is at home and showing mild symptoms, said Alaska chief medical officer Dr. Anne Zink in a news conference.<\/p>\n

Dunleavy has been in quarantine during the infectious period and there are no known close contacts at this time, she said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, he is symptomatic, but he is doing well,” Zink said.<\/p>\n

Zink and Dunleavy’s attending physician are monitoring him and will provide the public with updates as needed.<\/p>\n

In a statement Wednesday afternoon, House Speaker Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, asked Alaskans to join her in praying for the governor’s recovery.<\/p>\n

“We are nearing a new chapter where vaccines will allow us to get back to normal, but this diagnosis is a tragic reminder that the pandemic is not yet over,” Stutes said.<\/p>\n

[Governor quarantines following close contact<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

Dunleavy went into quarantine on Monday following close contact on Saturday, Feb. 20, with someone who later tested positive for COVID-19. The governor’s office declined to provide further details on the close contact. A rapid test result Monday came back negative for the governor.<\/p>\n

In an email, Dunleavy spokesperson Jeff Turner said the governor had not yet received a COVID-19 vaccination in order to prioritize more vulnerable populations, and Dunleavy will be vaccinated when he is eligible under the state’s vaccination plan.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Peter Segall at psegall@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @SegallJnuEmpire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor is still at home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":68065,"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-68064","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\/68064","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=68064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68064"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}