Bars will close for inside service and restaurants will operate at reduced capacity due to rising COVID-19 transmission, City and Borough of Juneau announced.
As of noon Saturday, Sept. 12, bars are required to close for indoor service and restaurants must reduce indoor capacity to 50% of normal levels and require reservations, the city said in a news release. Juneau’s emergency operations center raised the city’s overall community risk level to Level 3 High, which triggers the new mitigation measures.
Earlier this week, the city announced an outbreak related to a late-August social gathering connected to multiple confirmed cases among bar employees and advised people who had socialized at bars to get tested for the coronavirus.