Legislative intern boards flight despite testing positive for COVID-19

Multiple residents close contacts, must quarantine

A University of Alaska student intern passing through Haines boarded an Alaska Seaplanes flight last week, despite testing positive for the COVID-19 virus, forcing nine other passengers into quarantine as close contacts. The 21-year-old intern was fired as a result.

Interim borough manager Alekka Fullerton said the student drove from Anchorage to Haines after being tested in Anchorage. He didn’t wait for his test result, Fullerton said, and found…