Health

With more than thirty new cases of COVID-19 in the last week, the Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization has raised the risk level for the region from green to yellow.Green status is considered low risk for the contracting the coronavirus and yellow designates medium risk.   At yellow or medium risk level, no gatherings of more than twenty people without …

For the fourth day in a row, Kodiak has seen new cases of COVID-19, a total of 23 since Friday. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization announced three new cases today. All involve people who recently traveled. Contact investigations are underway. Of the dozen that were reported yesterday, eleven were classified as close contact transmission cases, while only one was …

Kodiak is seeing another spike in COVID-19 cases, with a dozen new positive tests reported on Wednesday. Since Friday, there have been a total of 20 new cases. All of them involve Kodiak residents. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says eleven of those are close contacts of people in cases previously reported. One is travel related. Currently, there are …

The principal of the Kodiak High School sent out a letter to parents Tuesday night to tell them he has tested positive for COVID-19. Letter to Community 10-27-20 In his message, Neil Hecht said there were several reasons he shared his story.  First of all, he wanted to assure parents that their children were safe. Hecht said, when he realized he …

Three new cases of COVID-19 involving Kodiak residents were reported on Tuesday. Since Friday, there have been a total of eight reported in the region. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says the three most recent cases are all travel-related, with a contact investigation underway. Since the first outbreak in April, there are now a total of 106 cases counted …

An employee for the City of Kodiak has tested positive for the coronavirus. City Manager Mike Tvenge confirmed the case on Monday. Tvenge said in an email that public health officials have instructed the city worker to self-isolate and is doing so. He says all city staff known to have contact with the employee, who tested positive for COVID-19, have …

Kodiak’s COVID-19 count climbed by one more case over the weekend. Four were reported on Friday. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization now reports a total 103 cases for the region since the first outbreak in April. There are five cases currently classified as active. This latest report involves a Kodiak resident. The Emergency Services Organization did not identify the …

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a new case of COVID-19 reported on Monday, Oct. 26. Kodiak’s COVID-19 count blew past the 100-case milestone on Friday. Even so, compared to the rest of the state, the number of positive tests for the virus remains relatively low in the Kodiak region. The Kodiak Strong movement, with its homemade …

A cluster of new COVID-19 cases has been reported in the Kodiak Island Borough. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says out of four cases, three involve Kodiak residents who recently traveled. The other person, also from Kodiak, has been classified as community spread. This brings the total number of cases reported in the region since April to 102, with …

A review of COVID-19 cases in the Kodiak Island Borough has turned up cases not previously counted. The Kodiak Area Emergency Services Organization says the Kodiak Health Department conducted the review – and not only found two uncounted cases but also one improperly assigned to the Kodiak region. This reclassification brings the total number of cases reported on Kodiak Island, …