ANCHORAGE (AP) - The island community of St. Paul, in the middle of the Bering Sea, has issued an emergency stay-at-home ordinance after its first case of the Coronavirus.
An essential worker tested positive on the island, the Anchorage Daily News reported April 1. It is the first reported Coronavirus case in St. Paul since the pandemic began.
The city’s hunker-down order will last from April 1 until April 15 and was approved by the St. Paul City Council on March 31. All of St. Paul’s residents besides those in essential government, business or health care services will be asked to stay at home, city officials wrote.
Schools in the area will be remote for the next two weeks, and work packets will be dropped off by teachers.
The community has 370 full-time residents and about 300 nonresidents on the island.
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