A group of employees at a Southeast Alaska mine have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a release from the City and Borough of Juneau on Wednesday evening.
Nineteen employees and their close contacts at the Coeur Alaska Kensington Mine were transported 45 miles south to Juneau in order to quarantine and isolate, Lisa Phu, information officer for the city and borough, said in the release.
“Coeur Alaska has responded quickly to this situation and is being proactive in containing the outbreak. Risk to the community is minimal given the geographic isolation at the camp,” the borough’s emergency operations center incident commander, Mila Cosgrove, said in the release.