COVID update 5: Spring break extended to March 30

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In this edition: First health mandate issued, the person who tested positive stayed at the Sheraton Hotel, Gold Medal tourney cancelled.

The public schools across Alaska have been closed for Spring break this week, but that will be extended to March 30, said Gov. Mike Dunleavy today during a press conference.

Other news items from the day around Alaska:

  • The first state health mandate was issued: A suspension of visitors to state institutions, such the Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Justice youth facilities, Alaska Military Youth Academy and the Alaska Psychiatric Institute. Visitors to the Pioneer Homes will be limited to one a day and will be heavily screened.
  • The person identified as having COVID-19, a cargo pilot, had stayed at the Sheraton Hotel in Anchorage.
  • Pioneer Home residents are not being asked to leave facilities at this time.
  • Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau has been cancelled. It had been scheduled for March 22-28.
  • Mayor Ethan Berkowitz has closed the libraries in Anchorage, facilities that serve as daytime shelters for homeless people in the city.
  • The Rodney Carrington comedian show scheduled for this evening at the Dena’ina Center has been cancelled.
  • President Trump declared Sunday a National Day of Prayer.

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  1. Rep. Don Young has checked in. Sen. Dan Sullivan has checked in. Poor LISA is probably in doubt, or she’s holed up in the janitor’s closet. She has not posted a single word about Covid19. No LISA, no one will love you for that. Not even the Democrats.

  2. I get 2 extra weeks to spend with my lovely daughter and enjoy our time together.
    It is a blessing in disguise that her school is closed. It’s a great time to do spring cleaning .

  3. Let’s see, it’s been common knowledge that this has been coming for about 3 months.

    Yeah, now after the spread has already reached nearly every corner of the globe, some people are finally starting to open their eyes to what their leaders have been either ignoring, denying or lying about.

    I think that’s pretty fairly unconscionable.

  4. Kudos to Governor Dunleavy for how he is handling this. He is leading as an Alaskan. It gives me hope in his ability to continue to do so.

  5. If it were called the Wuhan flu, would anyone care so much, or at all?
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    Say you figured how to defeat America by helping its news media and Democrat Party depose an American president, disrupt America’s economy, push Americans into pointless panic, and force Americans to give up their Constitutional rights
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    … without firing a shot.
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    Would you do it?

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