This guidance applies to all ASD staff and students regardless of age who return from travel outside of Alaska.  

Fully-vaccinated individuals:

• Fully-vaccinated individuals who traveled or will travel within the United States are exempt from the testing and quarantine requirement.
• Fully-vaccinated is defined as two weeks after receiving the second dose in a two-dose series, or two weeks after receiving a single-dose vaccine.

All other individuals:

All other travelers are required to submit a negative SARS-CoV2 test result from a test taken no earlier than 72 hours of arrival into Alaska.

• Test must be molecular-based. No antigen or antibody test.
• Test can be taken upon arrival in Alaska or anytime thereafter.
• Test can be taken no earlier than 72 hours prior to arrival in Alaska.
• The traveler must maintain strict social distance from work/school until test results are available.

If the result is positive, the traveler must remain in self-isolation and must not return to work/school until cleared by a Municipality or State Healthcare Provider (i.e. Public Health Nurse, Contact Tracer, Pediatrician, or Family Physician, etc.).

If the result is negative, the traveler may return to work/school as long as they are asymptomatic. Submit the negative result to your school nurse (student) or supervisor (employee).

If traveler chooses not to get a SARS-CoV2 test:

• The traveler must maintain strict social distance for 10 days from arrival in Alaska.
• The traveler may return to work/school on Day 11, if asymptomatic.

Travel outside of Alaska for less than 72 hours:

• No test requirement if currently asymptomatic.
• Must follow isolation protocols if experiencing symptoms.

Prior confirmed positive SARS-CoV2 result within 90 days of departure:  (All Travelers)

• The traveler does not need a SARS-CoV2 test or to maintain social distance if the three following conditions are met:
  • The traveler provides proof of a previously positive result of a molecular based test for SARS-CoV2 within 90 days of travel;
  • The traveler is currently asymptomatic;
  • The traveler submits the positive result with the date to your school nurse (student) or supervisor (employee).