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City and Borough of Juneau to hold coronavirus meeting

Published 9:30 pm Monday, March 2, 2020

By Juneau Empire

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Courtesy Photo | NIAID-RML via AP)
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This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Courtesy Photo | NIAID-RML via AP)

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Courtesy Photo | NIAID-RML via AP)
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Courtesy Photo | NIAID-RML via AP)

City and Borough of Juneau will hold a meeting to discuss COVID-19 Monday, March 9, the city announced Tuesday.

The special Committee of the Whole meeting will start at 6 p.m. in City Hall Assembly Chamber, 155 S. Seward St. KTOO will broadcast the meeting on 104.3 FM.

The meeting will include basic information about the disease, detailed information about what CBJ and other community partners are doing to prepare and what the community can generally expect moving forward, according to a release from the city. The cruise ship Westerdam, which is scheduled to arrive in Juneau around March 22, will be discussed in detail.

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People can email their questions ahead of time to BoroughAssembly@juneau.org, and according to a release, the Assembly will respond to as many of them as possible during the meeting.

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