A Ketchikan resident has tested positive for coronavirus. That’s according to state and local officials who said Tuesday the local government employee is the state’s sixth confirmed case and first in Southeast Alaska.
The infected individual is a Ketchikan borough employee that had recently returned from the Lower 48. The state Division of Public Health relayed the results to local officials on Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, state health officials interviewed the individual about their activities since returning to Ketchikan earlier this month.
“They provided detailed information about everyone they were in contact with, their routine, the places that they went, the people that they encountered,” said Kacie Paxton, spokesperson for Ketchikan’s emergency operations center.