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City announces bars to close to indoor service, restaurants require reservations

Published 10:30 pm Thursday, September 10, 2020

By Juneau Empire

A sign on the doors of the Alaskan Hotel and Bar in downtown Juneau letting customers know of a temporary closure. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)
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A sign on the doors of the Alaskan Hotel and Bar in downtown Juneau letting customers know of a temporary closure. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

A sign on the doors of the Alaskan Hotel and Bar in downtown Juneau letting customers know of a temporary closure. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)
A sign on the doors of the Alaskan Hotel and Bar in downtown Juneau letting customers know of a temporary closure. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire)

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.

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