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Petersburg is revising a nearly 50-year-old local law on disease control. A proposed draft law removes the possibility for a health officer to force vaccination but still allow measures to prevent the spread of infectious disease from people coming to Petersburg.

Petersburg still has a high number of active COVID-19 cases and like other places is feeling a shortage of testing and treatment supplies.

Hunters continue to report success in the month-long moose season on the islands and mainland of central Southeast Alaska around Petersburg, Wrangell and Kake. Halfway through the season the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reports a harvest of 66 bull moose.

Petersburg Medical Center reported eight new cases of COVID-19 in the community Monday. That puts the number of active cases in Petersburg at nine.